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Title
San Francisco [California] 1849
Creator
Snow & Co. (active ca. 1849), publisher
Date Created and/or Issued
1849
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
City and harbor looking from Rincon Point towards Telegraph Hill. Clustered buildings at left with US flag in center (Portsmouth Square). Signs on buildings in foreground read "Sherman & Ruckel," "P.M.S.S. Co.," and "S.H. Williams & Co." Ships in bay, one on fire (names identified in legend); Yerba Buena Island at right; several tents among buildings and small military camp in right foreground.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, above title): Published by Snow & Co., 20 Post Street. Printed legend. For variant see 1963.002:1493--FR.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 48.4 x 86.1 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8b69p54d
BANC PIC 1963.002:0551--E
Subject
Business enterprises
California, Northern
Harbors
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements
Vessels

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