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Pictorial Letter Sheet SF bird's eye view
Pictorial Letter Sheet SF bird's eye view
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Heading: (San Francisco...)
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Title: San Francisco in 1851
Place Published: [San Francisco]
Publisher:[Cooke & LeCount]
Date Published: 1851
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Lithographed bird 's-eye view, approx. 15x40 cm. (6x15¾"), across the top half of a double sheet overall 27x42 cm. (10¾x16½ "), gray wove paper.



View from west to Yerba Buena Island, harbor, and bay; Telegraph Hill and station at left; trees, foreground. From Nature and on Stone by J. H. Peirce. Printed by Chas. E. Peregoy. With contemporary ink manuscript numbers designating 10 locations, with descriptive key on the lower portion, including "Telegraph for reporting vessels &; steam ships..."; "United States mail steam ship just arriving"; "Island of Yerba Buena"; "Long Wharf 1/2 mile long"; "Market Street Wharf"; etc. Baird 248.

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Neat tape repairs on verso at folds; very good or better.
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Pictorial Letter Sheet SF bird's eye view

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