A sketch artist and photographer, Isaiah West Taber was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and went to the Mother Lode area of California in the Gold Rush of 1850. However, he abandoned mining for ranching and then lived in San Francisco where he was a dentist.
He did pen and ink drawings including "Vigilance Committee Hanging James Stuart, San Francisco" (1851) and Sacramento River" (1850), which hang in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1854, he (showing 500 of 1236 characters). |
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