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Title
San Francisco in 1849
Alternative Title
Taken from Broadway, near Kearny Street.
Date Created and/or Issued
1849
1850
1851
1852
1853
1854
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information
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Description
Image of town buildings, the harbor with several ships in it to the left, the hills in the background, and several tents and small figures in the foreground. Buildings and places of particular interest are numbered in the image, and these numbers correspond to a list beneath the image. "Drawn and Engraved by Thomas Armstrong, in the Fall of 1849, and re-published by A. Rosenfield, (late of Hutchings and Rosenfield), No. 602 Montgomery Street, near Clay, San Francisco."--text, below image. Baird notes that the topography and details of the image are incorrect, and that this is apparently an issue of the early 1860's and not 1849. Paper color: buff.
Type
image
Format
High resolution
Extent
1 wood engraving : uncolored ; 25 x 20 cm (9 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.) overall
Identifier
48052:168
48842
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23558
Language
English
Subject
California--Gold discoveries
California--Pictorial works
San Francisco (Calif.)--History
Wood engravings. (aat)
Source
California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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