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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: May 29, 2015
Caption: 1847 & 1848
Additional Description: 1847

United States Congress decrees that San Diego will be one of the scheduled stops for steamboat service by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company from San Francisco. The first ship arrives two years later.

1848

California becomes a United States territory, and an international border is created between Mexico and the United States
Submitted: July 20, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p316674
File Size: 0.148 Megabytes

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