Image / San Francisco [California] in 1851

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Title: San Francisco [California] in 1851
Creator: Peirce, Joshua H. (active 1850s), American?, lithographer Peregoy, Charles E. (active 1850-1851), printer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1851
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 from Nob Hill looking down California Street; harbor packed with ships; Yerba Buena Island and bay at distance; Telegraph Hill at left.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): From nature and on stone by J.H. Pierce; (LR): Printed by Cha[rle]s E. Peregoy. Handwritten letter dated 1851 on recto and verso. Blind stamp (UC). Enclosed is original envelope of lettersheet.
Type: image
Format: Print on tinted paper: lithograph 17.2 x 42 cm., image on sheet 27 x 42 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9h4nb97t
BANC PIC 1963.002:0134--B
Subject: Bays
California, Northern
Harbors
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements

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