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Title
[View of San Francisco, California, 1877]
Creator
[Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued
1877
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
Bird's-eye view looking southwest from bay across city to Pacific Ocean and down peninsula; waterfront area with numerous ships (steamships, sidewheel steamships, sailboats, sailing ships, ferries, etc.) in dock and on bay near wharves in foreground; Golden Gate in right distance. Includes advertisements in German and English for various San Francisco business including I.W. Taber and others.
Printed title (MC): Ansicht von San Francisco 1877. Printed (ML): By permission of the S.F. News Letter; (MC, below title): Published for Philo Jacoby's "California State Almanac." For variant see 1963.002:0527--A. Inscriptions in German.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: lithograph 54.4 x 77.2 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3g5009b6
BANC PIC 1963.002:0588--D
Subject
Bays
California, Northern
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements
Vessels
Waterfronts

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