Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher
Creator Name:
McMurtrie, William Birch (1816-1872), American, undetermined
Creator Name:
Palmer, Francis Florabond (Fanny) (1812-1876), British, lithographer
Creator Role:
lithographer and publisher
Creator Role:
lithographer
Creator Role:
undetermined
Title:
View of San Francisco, Calif[ornia]: taken from Telegraph Hill, April 1850...
Date:
c1851
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, color
Dimensions:
53 x 85.7 cm., visible image
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1495--FR
Subject:
- California, Northern
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Settlements
- Vessels
- Cityscapes
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
City and harbor looking from Telegraph Hill; sailing ships, sidewheel steamships, and other boats crowd bay. Houses and buildings along street in center, some with signs bearing business names. Signal house in left foreground; tents, miner and goats on slope.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): taken from Telegraph Hill, April 1850 by Wm. B. McMurtrie, daughtsman of the US Surveying Expedition; (LL): On stone by F. Palmer; (LR): Lith. & pub. by N. Currier, 152 Nassau St[reet], cor[ner] of Spruce, N[ew] Y[ork]; (MC): Entered... 1851 by N. Currrier... (LC): Published by N. Currier, N[ew] Y[ork], William B. McMurtie, San Francisco. Printed legend.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf4z09p2j v

View of San Francisco, Calif[ornia]: taken from Telegraph Hill, April 1850...