Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
[Unknown]
Title:
[San Francisco street scene near waterfront]
Date:
[ca. 1855?]
Materials:
painting on paper: watercolor
Dimensions:
13.8 x 16.5 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0799--A
Subject:
- Buildings
- Business enterprises
- California, Northern
- San Francisco
(Calif.)
- Waterfronts
- Cityscapes
- Paintings
- Watercolors
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Busy street in front of two, three-story brick buildings; several figures, bundles, horses, and cart near buildings. Open gateway between buildings (entrance to dock?). Appears to be departure area for ship passengers (identified as Sacramento and Leidesdorff Streets; location of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's office).
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Supplied title. Handwritten (within image, sign on left building): Steamships; (center building):1851; (on verso) (modern?): N.E. cor[ner]. Sac[ramen]to & Leidesdorff. (Inventory Sheets note: See 1963.002:800. Possibly same hand; ca. 1855?).
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf387008g g

[San Francisco street scene near waterfront]