Title:
Private Signals of the merchants of New York and San Francisco [California]
Creator/Contributor:
Gifford, Charles B. (active ca. 1858-ca. 1868), publisher (publisher)
Nagel, Louis (active ca. 1844-ca. 1873), German, printer (printer)
Date:
c1858
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1492--FR
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, color
111.5 x 76.8 cm., visible image
Content/Description:
Images of 127 signal flags with merchants identified below. Image in upper center of border shows sailing ship moored at Lombard
Dock (San Francisco), flanked by medallions with allegorical images identified as "Eureka," and "Excelsior," (representing
state of California and New York?) and a train.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (UC). Printed (LC, within image): Lith. print. in colors by L. Nagel, San Francisco; (LC): Entered... 1858 by
C. B. Gifford... ; (LC): Respectfully dedicated to the merchants of San Francisco by Charles B. Gifford.
Subjects:
Business enterprises;
California, Northern;
New York;
San Francisco (Calif.)
Genre/Format:
Lithographs, color