Title:
Bird's-eye view of the City of San Francisco [California]
Creator/Contributor:
Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer (lithographer)
Snow & Roos, publisher (publisher)
Date:
c1868
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0631--D
Format:
print on textured paper mounted on fabric: lithograph, color
53.8 x 76.5 cm., dome top
Content/Description:
Bird's-eye 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.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Steam Litho. Britton & Rey, S[an] F[rancisco]; (LC, above title): Entered... 1868 by Snow
& Roos... California; (LC, below title): Published by Snow & Roos, San Francisco.
Subjects:
Bays;
California, Northern;
San Francisco (Calif.);
Settlements;
Waterfronts
Genre/Format:
Bird's-eye views;
Lithographs, color