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Title: Wreck of Tennessee [near Point Bonita, California]
Creator: McMurtrie, William Birch (1816-1872), American, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [1850-1855]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Coastline from sea; slopes rise steeply from water; flag (or tent?) on small outcropping. Possibly Tennessee Cove where the Tennessee (ship) ran aground.
Handwritten title (LC). Handwritten (ML, on hill): red.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: pencil 18.1 x 27.3 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf0489n9j9
BANC PIC 1963.002:1300:18--ALB
Subject: California, Northern
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Waterfronts

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