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Title: San Francisco, bird's-eye view [California]
Creator: Gifford, Charles B. (active ca. 1858-ca. 1868), artist and lithographer Robinson & Snow (active ca. 1864), publisher Nagel, Louis (active ca. 1844-ca. 1873), German, printer
Date Created and/or Issued: c1864
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: View looking southwest from bay across city to Pacific Ocean and down peninsula; waterfront area with numerous ships (steamships, sidewheel steamships, sailboats, sailing ships, ferries, etc.) in dock and on bay near wharves in foreground; Golden Gate in right distance. See supplements for keys.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Drawn & lithographed by C.B. Gifford; (LC, above title): Entered... 1864 by Robinson & Snow [publisher]... California; (LR): Printed by L. Nagel, S[an] F[rancisco].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on board: lithograph, hand colored 74.2 x 100.1 cm., on mount 90.5 x 122 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf596nb6rk
BANC PIC 1963.002:1465--F
Subject: Bays
California, Northern
Harbors
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements
Vessels
Waterfronts

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