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Title: View of the Playa Prieta, Panama
Creator: Day & Son (active ca. 1850), British, lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1850]
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: Tropical beach front and bay with large crowd gathered for launching ceremony for sidewheel steamship standing on beach; natives in foreground
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): shewing the launch of the French steamer Colibri, Nov[embe]r 27th, 1850/(the first steamer constructed in the Republic of New Granada). Printed (LL): Drawn on the spot; (LR): Day & Son, Lith[ographe]rs to The Queen.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 28.5 x 40.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4w1010tg
BANC PIC 1963.002:1478--B
Subject: Bays
Central America
Indigenous peoples
Panama
Rites & ceremonies
Vessels
Waterfronts

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