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Title: San Francisco past and present [California]
Creator: Baker, George Holbrook (1827-1906), American, artist Barber & Baker (active ca. 1855), publisher Sun Print (active ca. 1850), printer
Date Created and/or Issued: c1854
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: Upper image: San Francisco as it was, 1849 with view of harbor taken from Rincon Point, Telegraph Hill in distance. Includes map of vicinity of San Francisco. Lower image: San Francisco as it is, 1854 showing view of waterfront area adjacent to Montgomery Street.
Printed title (UC). Printed (LL): Entered... 1854 by Barber & Baker... ; (LC): Published by Barber & Baker, Sacramento, M. Ullman, agent, San Francisco; (LR): Printed at the Sun Office. (LL, each image): Taken from Rincon Point, by G.H. Baker, and dated (upper): June 1, 1849, (lower): Dec. 1854.
Type: image
Format: Print on tinted paper: engraving and letterpress 46 x 28.5 cm., sheet
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1n39p0m1
BANC PIC 1963.002:0135--B
Subject: California, Northern
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements
Waterfronts

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