Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: View of the Playa Prieta, Panama

Collection: 
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Group Creator Name: 
- Day & Son (active ca. 1850), British, lithographer
Title: 
View of the Playa Prieta, Panama
Date: 
[not before 1850]
Materials: 
print on paper: lithograph
Dimensions: 
28.5 x 40.7 cm.
Current Location: 
Bancroft Library.
Address: 
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID: 
BANC PIC 1963.002:1478--B
Subject: 
- Bays - Central America - Indigenous peoples - Panama - Rites & ceremonies - Vessels - Waterfronts - Lithographs
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Content/Description:
Notes: 
Tropical beach front and bay with large crowd gathered for launching ceremony for sidewheel steamship standing on beach; natives in foreground
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes: 
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): shewing the launch of the French steamer Colibri, Nov[embe]r 27th, 1850/(the first steamer constructed in the Republic of New Granada). Printed (LL): Drawn on the spot; (LR): Day & Son, Lith[ographe]rs to The Queen.
Collection Description: 
METS ID: 
ark:/13030/tf4w1010tg