On August 19, 1849, the first steamboat arrived at Sacramento City and printing a steamboat cut

On August 19, 1849, the first steamboat arrived at Sacramento City from San Francisco. The steamer was the Edward Everett, which was captained by William V. Wells. The ship and its crew left Boston in January 1849 upon hearing news of gold in California. The ship was owned by the Boston and California Mining and Trading Company. While the Edward Everett was the first steamboat to arrive in Sacramento City, it was not the first steamboat to traverse the Sacramento River. The first steamboat that traveled on the Sacramento River, which occurred in December 1847, was the “Little Sitka,” a 37-foot steamboat owned and captained by William Alexander Leidesdorff Jr. While the Little Sitka only made one round trip on the river, and the Edward Everett was soon abandoned by its crew and sold, steamboats became the main mode for transporting goods and passengers between San Francisco and Sacramento during the Gold Rush. For today, Jared letterpress printed an image from a modern photo engraving depicting of a steamboat traveling on the Sacramento River. This is one of the only cuts of a steamboat that we have in our print shop exhibit. #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #onthisday #steamboat #goldrush #SacHistoryMuseum #sacramento #museum #history #letterpress #printingpress #asmr #printing #youtubeshorts #youtube #shorts #short #shortvideo #oldsacramento

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