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Title
View of San Francisco, California
Creator
McMurtrie, Wm. B
Contributor
Currier, Nathaniel, 1813-1888
McMurtrie, Wm. B
Date Created and/or Issued
1850
Publication Information
New York : N. Currier ; San Francisco : Wm. B. McMurtrie
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
View 1 (1998-0001). Unframed -- view 2 (1998-001a). Framed.
PRINT-FRAMED-VAULT: SAN FRANCISCO: 1850
View of San Francisco taken from Telegraph Hill, April 1850, by Wm. B. McMurtrie, draughtsman of the U.S. Surveying Expedition. Man standing at left looking out at San Francisco Bay; sailing ships anchored in bay; goats on hill in foreground; Montgomery Street on the right; notes on lower margin, left to right: "Clarks Point"; "Rincon Point"; "Happy Valley"; "Long Wharf (building)"; "Pacific St. Wharf (building)"; "Apollo Warehouse"; "Niantic Warehouse"; "Sansome Street"; Portsmouth Square"; and "Montgomery St."
Negative, no. 25,579, (4 x 5 in.) b/w and color transparency.
Type
image
Format
Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 17 1/4 x 30 3/8 in. sheet in 27 1/4 x 38 3/4 in. frame.
Identifier
(C)001376890CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-0101
Language
English
Subject
Sailing ships
Waterfronts--California--San Francisco
Warehouses--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Pictorial works
San Francisco Bay (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Lithographs
Cityscape prints
Prints
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)
San Francisco Bay (Calif.)

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