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Title: [Entrance to San Francisco Bay taken from Telegraph Hill, California]
Creator: Wikersheim, Fritz (active ca. 1847-1851), French, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [1845-1851]
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: Important early view of area west of Telegraph Hill, though the perspective is somewhat distorted; view from above North Beach looking toward Black Point and the Golden Gate; several ships in bay.
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC): Californie. Entreé de la baie de San Francisque/prise du Télégraphe. Inscriptions in French.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: watercolor and pencil 13.8 x 21.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2k400860
BANC PIC 1963.002:1304:19--ALB
Subject: Bays
California, Northern
San Francisco (Calif.)
Waterfronts

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