Title:
San Francisco, [California] 1856
Creator/Contributor:
Bill, Henry (active ca. 1850-ca. 1857), publisher (publisher)
Date:
c185[2]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0556--B
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, color
31.3 x 43.8 cm.
Content/Description:
View from Nob Hill looking down California Street toward harbor; Telegraph Hill at left; numerous ships in harbor; houses
and buildings in middleground; vegetation in foreground. Principal buildings and sites identified by legend.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, above title): Entered... in the year 185[2] by Henry Bill... District of Connecticut; (LC,
below title): Published for the History of the World by Henry Bill, New York. Printed legend. See also 1963.002:0554--B, 1963.002:0555--B,
and 1963.002:0557--B. Views were also issued in 1850, 1852, 1854, 1855, 1856, and 1857, all copyrighted by Henry Bill, and
all, save 1851, from the same plate.
Subjects:
Bays;
California, Northern;
San Francisco (Calif.);
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Lithographs, color