Title:
San Francisco [California], 1849
Creator/Contributor:
Firks, Henry (active ca. 1850), artist (artist)
Sinclair, Thomas S. (active ca. 1849-ca. 1853), lithographer (lithographer)
Jones, W. H. (active ca. 1849), American, publisher (publisher)
Date:
1849
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1493--FR
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, color
42.5 x 85.5 cm., visible image
Content/Description:
City and harbor looking from Rincon Point towards Telegraph Hill. Clustered buildings at left with US flag in center (Portsmouth
Square). Signs on buildings in foreground read "Sherman & Ruckel," "P.M.S.S. Co.," and "S.H. Williams & Co." Ships in bay,
one on fire (names identified in legend); Yerba Buena Island at right. Several tents among buildings and small military camp
in right foreground.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): On stone by [TBB?]otson; (LC, below title): Drawn on the spot by Henry Firks, for W.H. Jones,
esq. of San Francisco [publisher?]; (LR): T. Sinclairs Lith., 101 Chestnut St., Phila[delphia]. Printed legend. For variant
see 1963.002:0551--E.
Subjects:
Bays;
Business enterprises;
California, Northern;
Harbors;
San Francisco (Calif.);
Settlements;
Vessels
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Lithographs, color