Title:
View of San Francisco, Calif[ornia]: taken from Telegraph Hill, April 1850...
Creator/Contributor:
Palmer, Francis Florabond (Fanny) (1812-1876), British, lithographer (lithographer)
Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
McMurtrie, William Birch (1816-1872), American, undetermined (undetermined)
Date:
c1851
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1495--FR
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, color
53 x 85.7 cm., visible image
Content/Description:
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.
Notes/Inscriptions:
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.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
San Francisco (Calif.);
Settlements;
Vessels;
Vessels
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Lithographs, color