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View of the town and harbour of San Francisco, California, from the Signal Hill

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Title: View of the town and harbour of San Francisco, California, from the Signal Hill
Creator: Collinson (active ca. 1851), artist Boosey, W. (active ca. 1851), lithographer Ackerman & Co. (active ca. 1851), British, publisher M. & N. Hanhart (active ca. 1851-ca. 1857), printer
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: View from Telegraph Hill looking towards Yerba Buena harbor at left and Montgomery Street at right; south bay in distance. Several figures (Spaniards), campers with tents, and signal building in foreground; numerous ships in bay; wharves and densely packed buildings of city to right.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Drawn on stone by W. Boosey from a sketch by Capt[ai]n Collinson R.E.; (LR): M. & N. Hanhart Lith. Printers; (LC): London published Nov. 12 1851 by Ackerman & Co., 96 Strand. Index identifying sites of interest.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 41.5 x 79 cm., dome top
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5x0nb714
BANC PIC 1963.002:0600--D
Subject: Bays
California, Northern
Camping
Frontier & pioneer life
Harbors
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements
Spaniards

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