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Title: City of San Francisco
Date Created and/or Issued: 1849
1850
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a high view of San Francisco from the west looking toward Yerba Buena Island. The harbor is filled with ships. "J. Clark."--text, below image. Paper color: buff.
Baird notes that, along with "View of San Francisco February 1850," this is one of the earliest letter sheets. It was issued before February 9, 1850, and possibly late 1849.
Type: image
Format: High resolution
Extent: 1 metal engraving : uncolored ; 9 x 19.8 cm (3 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.) image on 25.5 x 19.8 cm (4 1/8 x 7 7/8 in.) sheet.
Identifier: 48052:024
48690
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23410
Language: English
Subject: California--Gold discoveries
California--Pictorial works
San Francisco (Calif.)--History
Engravings (prints). (aat)
Source: California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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