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Title: [View of St. George Island, Alaska]
Creator: Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1803 and 1807]
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: Island with sheer rock cliffs seen across water; three-masted sailing ship to left; other ships in distance.
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in ink): Ansicht der Insel St. George; (LR, in ink): Dessiné par G. de Langsdorff. Handwritten (L to R below image): no. 76, no. 79, no. 84, so. 62, so. 64; (UR, in ink): IX; (on verso, in pencil): Langsdorff... Ansicht der Insel St. George. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German ed., Vol II, Plate I; text, p. 26; not in English edition. Inscriptions in German.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: wash 22.3 x 28.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf267nb4w3
BANC PIC 1963.002:1016--ffALB
Subject: Alaska
Discovery & exploration
Expeditions & surveys
Northwest, Pacific
Vessels
Voyages to the Pacific

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