Image / View of San Francisco [California] formerly Yerba Buena in 1846-7

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Title: View of San Francisco [California] formerly Yerba Buena in 1846-7
Creator: Swasey, Capt. W. (active ca. 1847), publisher Bosqui Eng. & Ptg. Co. (active ca. 1863-ca. 1906), printer
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1847]
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: San Francisco looking inland from bay prior to the discovery of gold; several sailing ships, including the Portsmouth (ship), in harbor; few buildings on shore; Twin Peaks, Lone Mountain, Nob Hill, and other landmarks visible.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Executed by the Bosqui Eng. & Print. Co.; (LC, above title): Copyrighted; (LR): Designed & copied from views taken at the time & published by/Capt. W. Swasey/a continuing resident since 1845. Printed legend.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on board: lithograph, color 52.5 x 59.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf0b69n9n5
BANC PIC 1963.002:0549--D
Subject: Bays
California, Northern
Harbors
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements

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