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Title: San Francisco, [California] 1856
Creator: Bill, Henry (active ca. 1850-ca. 1857), publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: c185[2]
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 Nob Hill looking down California Street toward harbor; Telegraph Hill at left; numerous ships in harbor; houses and buildings in middleground; vegetation in foreground. Principal buildings and sites identified by legend.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, above title): Entered... in the year 185[2] by Henry Bill... District of Connecticut; (LC, below title): Published for the History of the World by Henry Bill, New York. Printed legend. See also 1963.002:0554--B, 1963.002:0555--B, and 1963.002:0557--B. Views were also issued in 1850, 1852, 1854, 1855, 1856, and 1857, all copyrighted by Henry Bill, and all, save 1851, from the same plate.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, color 31.3 x 43.8 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf609nb6f8
BANC PIC 1963.002:0556--B
Subject: Bays
California, Northern
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements

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