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Title: [View of San Francisco, California, looking from the north east]
Creator: McMurtrie, William Birch (1816-1872), American, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [185-]
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: Broad view of city looking from hill; with large tent and male figure sketching in foreground. Plaza, buildings, and houses in middleground, hills with sparsely scattered houses in background.
Supplied title. Handwritten (on verso): Painted by William B. McMurtrie/belongs to Theodore N. McMurtrie, San Francisco.... Creator name and date from label (on verso).
Type: image
Format: Painting on paper: watercolor and pencil 26 x 36.4 cm., visible image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf0b69n9x9
BANC PIC 1963.002:1283--FR
Subject: California, Northern
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Settlements

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