Title:
[San Francisco street scene near waterfront]
Creator/Contributor:
[Unknown]
Date:
[ca. 1855?]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0799--A
Format:
painting on paper: watercolor
13.8 x 16.5 cm.
Content/Description:
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).
Notes/Inscriptions:
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?).
Subjects:
Buildings;
Business enterprises;
California, Northern;
San Francisco (Calif.);
Waterfronts
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Paintings;
Watercolors