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Title: San Francisco [California]
Creator: Hildebrandt, Eduard (1881-1869), German, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [1862]
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: Looking up California Street from Montgomery showing Nob Hill, Saint Mary's Cathedral, First Congregational Church, the Parrot Building, and steam streetcar.
Printed title (LL). Printed (LR, within image): E. Hildebrandt. Handwritten (LC): 1862. Original artist's label (on verso): No.12/Ed. Hildebrandt/strasse in St. Francisco/mit einem Dampf-Omnibus/chromofacsimiliert nach dem Aquarell aus der/Sammlung des Herrn Richard Goehde/Verlag von R.Wagner/Berlin, Mauerstrasse 36. Eduard Hildebrandt roles unclear. Resembles a view published as part of an album of famous city views, Vue d'Optique, by Wincklemann & Söhne of Berlin (cf. Peters, Harry T., California on Stone, p.128) Inscriptions in German.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on board: photomechanical 27.5 x 37.9 cm., on mount 46 x 56.3 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7n39p4nb
BANC PIC 1963.002:0212--C
Subject: Buildings
California, Northern
Churches
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements
Vehicles

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