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Title: [Spanish establishment of St. Francisco in New California]
Creator: Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlief (1769-1857), German, artist (attributed to) Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [1806]
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 taken from the ship "Juno." Four Indians in reed canoe in left foreground; Presidio buildings and small figures walking on the shore in middleground; hills in distance. Possibly the earliest known view of San Francisco, Calif. and the Presidio of San Francisco.
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in ink): Ansicht des Spanischen Etablissements von St. Francisco in Neu-Californien; (LR, in ink): Dessiné par G. de Langsdorff. Ref. note: Langsdorff, German ed., Vol. II, Plate 8, p.132; not in English edition. Inscriptions in German.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: ink and wash 22 x 27.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5c60101m
BANC PIC 1963.002:1021--FR
Subject: California, Northern
Discovery & exploration
Expeditions & surveys
Indians of North America
Military facilities
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Vessels
Voyages to the Pacific

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