Lithograph view, approximately. 18x25 cm. (7x10"), on a single sheet measuring approximately 23x28.5 cm. (9x11¼") overall, blue or gray wove paper. Engraved by G.H. Goddard, lithograph by Britton & Rey, San Francisco.

View of Main St., Sonora with church at far end. Not in Reps' Views and Viewmakers of Urban America. Sonora, headquarters for the Southern Mines, was established by Mexicans from Sonora in 1848. Watson, California of the Fifties (text opposite Plate 32: “By July [1849] 5,000 people had swarmed into Sonora camp, Mexican, Chileans, Americans, and men from every nation under the sun. The narrow main street thronged with excited gold seekers. One had to fight a way through the babel. Here were diggings richer than dreamed of. Authorities say that within a four-mile circle, over $400,000,000 has been the amount of gold produced to date.” Baird 257; Clifford 267.