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Title: Private Signals of the merchants of New York and San Francisco [California]
Creator: Gifford, Charles B. (active ca. 1858-ca. 1868), publisher Nagel, Louis (active ca. 1844-ca. 1873), German, printer
Date Created and/or Issued: c1858
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: Images of 127 signal flags with merchants identified below. Image in upper center of border shows sailing ship moored at Lombard Dock (San Francisco), flanked by medallions with allegorical images identified as "Eureka," and "Excelsior," (representing state of California and New York?) and a train.
Printed title (UC). Printed (LC, within image): Lith. print. in colors by L. Nagel, San Francisco; (LC): Entered... 1858 by C. B. Gifford... ; (LC): Respectfully dedicated to the merchants of San Francisco by Charles B. Gifford.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, color 111.5 x 76.8 cm., visible image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf429008x6
BANC PIC 1963.002:1492--FR
Subject: Business enterprises
California, Northern
New York
San Francisco (Calif.)

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