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Title: A view of Yerba Buena, San Francisco [California]
Creator: Hall, Parker (active ca. 1933), artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
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: Bird's-eye view of Yerba Buena harbor from south showing few scattered buildings, military post where soldiers raise US flag and several tents; sailing ship in harbor and men in rowboats going toward shore; Telegraph Hill and San Francisco Bay in distance. Scene depicts event of July 9, 1846 when Captain Montgomery, of the Sloop of War Portsmouth, raised the American flag in the plaza and seized the region for the United States.
Printed title (LC, within image). Handwritten (LL): 16/25. Printed (LC, within image, below title): On July 9, 1846, Capt[ain] Montgomery of the Sloop of War Portsmouth, raised the American flag in the plaza and seized the region for the United States; (LR, within image): Parker Hall, 1933.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: photomechanical 35.5 x 53.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5t1nb6bn
BANC PIC 1963.002:1884--C
Subject: Bays
California, Northern
Events
Harbors
Military facilities
Military personnel
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements

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