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Title: [Clipper ship "R. B. Forbes" leaving for California]
Creator: [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
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: Three-masted sailing vessel tied up at wharf (bow left); riggings described in pen throughout image; wharf crowded with barrels, packages, and boxes; men in foreground and working on ship.
Supplied title. Handwritten (within image, on middle mast flag): R.B. Forbes; (within image, LL): For California. Enclosure: The Old Print Shop (New York) advertisement for wood engravings of ships issued in 1850s and 1860s listing Clipper Ship "R.B. Forbes" traveling between Boston and Sandwich Islands, 1851.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: pencil and ink 18.6 x 24.8 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3489p2fr
BANC PIC 1963.002:0319 (enclosure)--A
Subject: Vessels
Voyages to the Pacific

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