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View of San Francisco [California]: taken from the western hill at the foot of Telegraph Hill, looking toward Rincon Point and Mission Valley

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Title: View of San Francisco [California]: taken from the western hill at the foot of Telegraph Hill, looking toward Rincon Point and Mission Valley
Creator: Bainbridge, Henry (active ca. 1851), artist, artist
Contributor: Bainbridge, Henry (active ca. 1851), artist, artist
Casilear, George W. (active ca. 1860), American, artist and publisher, artist and publisher
Sarony & Major (active ca.1846-ca. 1857), American, lithographer, lithographer
Atwill & Company (active ca. 1853), publisher, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: c1851
Publication Information: TheBancroftLibrary, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000; http://bancroft.berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Chinese in California Virtual Collection: Selections from the Bancroft Library
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: View looking south from Telegraph Hill. Yerba Buena cove, island, and harbor at left; wharves and city at right. Large, diverse group of men and women; including Chinese, Spaniards, miners, settlers and others; camp in tents, cook, carry bundles, tend livestock, walk, and drive in wagons in foreground.
Type: image
Format: 64.2 x 93.9 cm., dome top
Form/Genre: Cityscapes
Lithographs, color
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb2k4001z0
BANC PIC 1963.002:0586--E
Subject: California, Northern
Camping
Frontier & pioneer life
Harbors
Settlements
Women
Place: San Francisco (Calif.)

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