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Title
Scene in the harbor of San Francisco [California]: burning of the store ship Manco, July 24, 1853
Creator
[Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued
[not before 1853]
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
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Description
Harbor with sailing ships at dock, Manco in center on fire. Men in rowboats and on docks; onlookers crowd pier. Sign on warehouse: Ship Chandlery; Abernathy, Clark & Co.
Printed title on attached label. Printed (LL, within image): [?]nahl & Bactche[?].
Type
image
Format
Photograph on paper mounted on board: albumen?, hand colored 36 x 52.8 cm., on mount 42.6 x 55.9 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf6580107q
BANC PIC 1963.002:1881--C
Subject
California, Northern
Events
Fires
Harbors
San Francisco (Calif.)
Vessels

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