Title:
San Francisco, bird's-eye view [California]
Creator/Contributor:
Gifford, Charles B. (active ca. 1858-ca. 1868), artist and lithographer (artist and lithographer)
Robinson & Snow (active ca. 1864), publisher (publisher)
Nagel, Louis (active ca. 1844-ca. 1873), German, printer (printer)
Date:
c1864
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1465--F
Format:
print on paper mounted on board: lithograph, hand colored
74.2 x 100.1 cm., on mount 90.5 x 122 cm.
Content/Description:
View looking southwest from bay across city to Pacific Ocean and down peninsula; waterfront area with numerous ships (steamships,
sidewheel steamships, sailboats, sailing ships, ferries, etc.) in dock and on bay near wharves in foreground; Golden Gate
in right distance. See supplements for keys.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Drawn & lithographed by C.B. Gifford; (LC, above title): Entered... 1864 by Robinson & Snow
[publisher]... California; (LR): Printed by L. Nagel, S[an] F[rancisco].
Subjects:
Bays;
California, Northern;
Harbors;
San Francisco (Calif.);
Settlements;
Vessels;
Waterfronts
Genre/Format:
Bird's-eye views;
Lithographs, color