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Title: [San Francisco street scene near waterfront]
Creator: [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1855?]
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: Busy street in front of two, three-story brick buildings; several figures, bundles, horses, and cart near buildings. Open gateway between buildings (entrance to dock?). Appears to be departure area for ship passengers (identified as Sacramento and Leidesdorff Streets; location of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's office).
Supplied title. Handwritten (within image, sign on left building): Steamships; (center building):1851; (on verso) (modern?): N.E. cor[ner]. Sac[ramen]to & Leidesdorff. (Inventory Sheets note: See 1963.002:800. Possibly same hand; ca. 1855?).
Type: image
Format: Painting on paper: watercolor 13.8 x 16.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf387008gg
BANC PIC 1963.002:0799--A
Subject: Buildings
Business enterprises
California, Northern
San Francisco (Calif.)
Waterfronts

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