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The city of San Francisco: bird's-eye view from the bay looking southwest [California]

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Title: The city of San Francisco: bird's-eye view from the bay looking southwest [California]
Creator: Parsons, Charles R. (1821-1910), American, artist Currier & Ives (active 1857-1907), American, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: c1878
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 looking southwest from bay across city to Pacific Ocean and down peninsula; waterfront area with numerous ships (sidewheel steamships, sailboats, sailing ships, ferries, etc.) in dock and on bay near wharves in foreground; Golden Gate in right distance.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Published by Currier & Ives, 115 Nassau St[reet], New York; (LC): Copyright 1878 by Currier & Ives, N[ew] Y[ork]; (LR): Sketched & drawn by C.R. Parsons. Printed legend.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, color 71.5 x 103.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5z09p3f3
BANC PIC 1963.002:1497--FR
Subject: Bays
California, Northern
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements
Vessels
Waterfronts

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