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Title: [Establishment of Russian American company at Norfolk Sound, Alaska]
Creator: Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1803 and 1807]
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: Fort on a hill, with log cabins below, and encircling small harbor; three sailing ships on bay; mountains in distance.
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in pencil): N[ummer] Ansicht des Etablissements in Norfolk-Sound; (LR, in ink): dess. par G. de Langsdorff; (UR, in ink): 4; (on verso, in pencil): Langsdorff... Ansicht des Etablissements Companie in Norfolk-Sound oder [Libaka?]. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German ed., Vol II, Plate 6; text, p. 76; not in English edition. Inscriptions in German.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: wash 23.1 x 28.6 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4j49p3c4
BANC PIC 1963.002:1019--ffALB
Subject: Alaska
Discovery & exploration
Dwellings
Expeditions & surveys
Military facilities
Northwest, Pacific
Settlements
Vessels
Voyages to the Pacific

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