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Title: The winter of 1849
Creator: Marryat, Francis Samuel (1826-1855), British, artist Brandard, J., lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued: [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: Humorous view of flooded street scene in San Francisco showing pedestrians trying to avoid water; woman crossing over boxes; men crowding street. Buildings line street (sign painting, rooming, Dr. Jones, Astor House, Chinese Warehouse, etc.).
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): F. Marryat, delt.; (LC, below title): M. & N. Hanhart, impt.; (LR): J. Brandard, lith. From "Mountains and molehills, or Recollections of a burnt journal" by Frank Marryat (London, 1855).
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on board: lithograph, color 13.5 x 18.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1b69p0g0
BANC PIC 1963.002:1440:4--A
Subject: Buildings
Business enterprises
California, Northern
Clothing & dress
Frontier & pioneer life
Manners & customs
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements
Women

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