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Title: View of San Francisco, Calif[ornia]: taken from Telegraph Hill, April 1850
Creator: Palmer, Francis Florabond (Fanny) (1812-1876), British, lithographer Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher McMurtrie, William Birch (1816-1872), American, undetermined
Date Created and/or Issued: c1851
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: City and harbor looking from Telegraph Hill; sailing ships, sidewheel steamships, and other boats crowd bay. Houses and buildings along street in center, some with signs bearing business names. Signal house in left foreground; tents, miner and goats on slope.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): taken from Telegraph Hill, April 1850 by Wm. B. McMurtrie, daughtsman of the US Surveying Expedition; (LL): On stone by F. Palmer; (LR): Lith. & pub. by N. Currier, 152 Nassau St[reet], cor[ner] of Spruce, N[ew] Y[ork]; (MC): Entered... 1851 by N. Currrier... (LC): Published by N. Currier, N[ew] Y[ork], William B. McMurtie, San Francisco. Printed legend.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, color 53 x 85.7 cm., visible image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4z09p2jv
BANC PIC 1963.002:1495--FR
Subject: California, Northern
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements
Vessels

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