1846 Views of Yerba Buena & Santa Barbara in California from the Illustrated London News

10" x 16" lithographic newspaper folio with images derived from woodblocks, text in support and explanation of imagery. Fine condition on this ephemeral newspaper cover page. Article on Yerba Buena, soon to be San Francisco and Santa Barbara, Mexico within California. This page dated June 27th is just 13 days after the Bear flag rebellion in Sonoma and just 10 days before the American Flag is raised in San Francisco by the Americans claiming California for the United States, so when the article was written it was mexico and by the time it was recieved by the reader it was the US territory