General view of the harbor of San Francisco. USA. 1858.

Print of woodcut engraving titled „Vue generale de la rade de San-Francisco“.

Artist and engraver unknown.

Notes: (Voir page 115).

From „L‘univers illustre. Journal hebdomadaire“, Paris. Aux bureaux d‘abonnement, 13, rue Bonaparte en face du palais Beaux – Arts et a la librairie de Michel Levy Freres. Rue Vivienne, 25 Bis. Paris. 1858.

San Francisco officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial and financial center of Northern California.The only consolidated city-county in California, San Francisco encompasses a land area of about 46.9 square miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of about 17,867 people per square mile (6,898 people per km2). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated major city in the United States after New York City. San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in California, after Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose, and the 14th-most populous city in the United States.

San Francisco (Spanish for "Saint Francis") was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for St. Francis of Assisi a few miles away. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. Due to the growth of its population, San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856.

Approx. image size: 22, 6 x 10, 1/28, 2 x 13, 5 cm.

Condition: good.