Title:
View of the town and harbour of San Francisco, California, from the Signal Hill
Creator/Contributor:
Collinson (active ca. 1851), artist (artist)
Boosey, W. (active ca. 1851), lithographer (lithographer)
Ackerman & Co. (active ca. 1851), British, publisher (publisher)
M. & N. Hanhart (active ca. 1851-ca. 1857), printer (printer)
Date:
c1851
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0600--D
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
41.5 x 79 cm., dome top
Content/Description:
View from Telegraph Hill looking towards Yerba Buena harbor at left and Montgomery Street at right; south bay in distance.
Several figures (Spaniards), campers with tents, and signal building in foreground; numerous ships in bay; wharves and densely
packed buildings of city to right.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Drawn on stone by W. Boosey from a sketch by Capt[ai]n Collinson R.E.; (LR): M. & N. Hanhart
Lith. Printers; (LC): London published Nov. 12 1851 by Ackerman & Co., 96 Strand. Index identifying sites of interest.
Subjects:
Bays;
California, Northern;
Camping;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Harbors;
San Francisco (Calif.);
Settlements;
Spaniards
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Lithographs, color