Title:
View of Benicia from the west [California]
Creator/Contributor:
Koppel, Charles (active ca. 1854), German, artist (artist)
Sinclair, Thomas S. (active ca. 1849-ca. 1853), lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
[not before 1854]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0203--A
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, color
21.5 x 29 cm.
Content/Description:
Coastline and harbor with scattered buildings in distance; figures on beach (fishing and standing near horse-drawn cart);
moored sailboat at right.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (UL): U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys (United States Pacific Rail Road Expedition and Survey), Cal[ifornia];
(UR): Plate 1; (LL): Ch[arle]s Koppel; (LR): T. Sinclair's lith., Phil[delphi]a. Likely taken from the United States Pacific
Railroad Survey in California, under the command of Lieut. R.S. Williamson, in 1853-54. See 1963.002:0478:01-16--A.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Expeditions & surveys;
Railroads;
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.);
Settlements;
Waterfronts
Genre/Format:
Lithographs, color