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Title: [Military vessels in Bellingam Bay, Washington?]
Creator: McMurtrie, William Birch (1816-1872), American, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [185-]
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: Two war(?) vessels: American two-masted sidewheel steamship with one smokestack, and British three-masted steamship (larger), anchored in (Bellingham?) bay; military camp on shore to left; several canoes with people in foreground; Mount Baker(?) and other snow-covered mountains in distance. View probably related to Pig War with Indian population on San Juan Islands, Washington.
Supplied title. Signature (LL): Mc Murtrie. Handwritten (on verso) in ink: Property of Emily Francis McMurtrie; By Wm. B. McMurtrie; in pencil: Emily F. McMurtrie.
Type: image
Format: Painting on paper: watercolor 24 x 47.9 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4z09p2vh
BANC PIC 1963.002:1293--B
Subject: Bays
Military facilities
Northwest, Pacific
Vessels

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