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Title
Pigeon Point [San Mateo, California]
Creator
McMurtrie, William Birch (1816-1872), American, artist (attributed to)
Date Created and/or Issued
[1856]
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
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Description
Coast from water with large rock formations in foreground. (Named by the Coast Survey after clipper ship "Carrier Pigeon" wreckage on May 6th, 1853.)
Handwritten title (LC). Date based on comparison to 1963.002:1209--A.
Type
image
Format
Drawing on paper: watercolor and pencil 20.5 x 33 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1q2nb4hc
BANC PIC 1963.002:1210--A
Subject
California, Northern
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Waterfronts

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