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Title: Bird's-eye view of the City of San Francisco [California]
Creator: Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer Snow & Roos, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: c1868
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: Bird's-eye view looking southwest from bay across city to Pacific Ocean and down peninsula; waterfront area with numerous ships (steamships, sidewheel steamships, sailboats, sailing ships, ferries, etc.) in dock and on bay near wharves in foreground; Golden Gate in right distance.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Steam Litho. Britton & Rey, S[an] F[rancisco]; (LC, above title): Entered... 1868 by Snow & Roos... California; (LC, below title): Published by Snow & Roos, San Francisco.
Type: image
Format: Print on textured paper mounted on fabric: lithograph, color 53.8 x 76.5 cm., dome top
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9q2nb8nv
BANC PIC 1963.002:0631--D
Subject: Bays
California, Northern
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements
Waterfronts

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