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View of San Francisco [California]: taken from the western hill at the foot of Telegraph Hill, looking toward Rincon Point and Mission Valley

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Title: View of San Francisco [California]: taken from the western hill at the foot of Telegraph Hill, looking toward Rincon Point and Mission Valley
Creator: Bainbridge, Henry (active ca. 1851), artist Casilear, George W. (active ca. 1860), American, artist and publisher Sarony & Major (active ca.1846-ca. 1857), American, lithographer Atwill & Company (active ca. 1853), publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: c1851
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 looking south from Telegraph Hill. Yerba Buena cove, island, and harbor at left; wharves and city at right. Large, diverse group of men and women; including Chinese, Spaniards, miners, settlers and others; camp in tents, cook, carry bundles, tend livestock, walk, and drive in wagons in foreground.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Drawn from nature by Henry Bainbridge & Geo[rge] W. Casilear; (LC, below title): Published by Geo[rge] W. Casilear, New York City, and by Atwill, San Francisco, California; (LR): Lith. of Sarony & Major, 117 Fulton St[reet], New York. Printed legend.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 64.2 x 93.9 cm., dome top
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8779p5hf
BANC PIC 1963.002:0586--E
Subject: California, Northern
Camping
Frontier & pioneer life
Harbors
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements
Women

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