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Title
San Francisco [California]
Creator
Ormsby, W. L. (active ca. 1850), engraver
Date Created and/or Issued
[186-?]
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
View looking south from Russian Hill towards Yerba Buena harbor. Campers in tents with cook pots and other figures (some miners?) carrying bundles, riding in carriages, and on horseback in foreground. Densely packed buildings and numerous ships in harbor in middleground and distance.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR): Eng[rave]d by W.L.Ormsby.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: engraving 15.2 x 24.1 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf696nb721
BANC PIC 1963.002:0541--A
Subject
California, Northern
Camping
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements

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