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Title
San Francisco [California]
Creator
Herrmann, J. Meyer (active ca. 1854), publisher (attributed to)
Date Created and/or Issued
[c1854]
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
View from Nob Hill looking toward harbor. Figures carry bundles in foreground; densely packed residences and buildings lead down to waterfront. Numerous ships in harbor, some on fire; Yerba Buena Island in distance.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Aus. d. Kunstanst d. Bibl. Inst. in Hildbh.; (LR): Eigenthum d. Verleger. Handwritten (LC, on mount): Die fünf Weltteile, Hildburghausen Verlag des Bibliografischen Instituts...; (LC, on mat): c1854-0. Attribution based on variant 1963.002:0542--A. Inscriptions in German.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: engraving, hand colored 20.3 x 25.7 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9v19p64g
BANC PIC 1963.002:0543--A
Subject
Bays
California, Northern
Harbors
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements

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