Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Boosey, W. (active ca. 1851), lithographer
Creator Name:
Collinson (active ca. 1851), artist
Group Creator Name:
- Ackerman & Co. (active ca. 1851), British, publisher
- M. & N. Hanhart (active ca. 1851-ca. 1857), printer
Creator Role:
artist
Creator Role:
lithographer
Title:
View of the town and harbour of San Francisco, California, from the Signal Hill
Date:
c1851
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
Dimensions:
41.5 x 79 cm., dome top
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0600--D
Subject:
- Bays
- California, Northern
- Camping
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Harbors
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Settlements
- Spaniards
- Cityscapes
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
View from Telegraph Hill looking towards Yerba Buena harbor at left and Montgomery Street at right; south bay in distance. Several figures (Spaniards), campers with tents, and signal building in foreground; numerous ships in bay; wharves and densely packed buildings of city to right.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Drawn on stone by W. Boosey from a sketch by Capt[ai]n Collinson R.E.; (LR): M. & N. Hanhart Lith. Printers; (LC): London published Nov. 12 1851 by Ackerman & Co., 96 Strand. Index identifying sites of interest.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf5x0nb71 4

View of the town and harbour of San Francisco, California, from the Signal Hill