Bird's Eye View of San Diego, California 1876

Eli Sheldon Glover (1845-1919)

Date

1876
Object Type

Prints
Medium

Toned lithograph
Contributors

Printed by A. L. Bancroft & Co.

Published by Schneider & Kueppers
Dimensions

Image: 16 5/8 x 26 13/16 in.
Sheet: 21 1/8 x 29 1/4 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.l.: Drawn by E.S. Glover and Published Schneider & Kueppers, San Diego. \ Showing the central portion of the city with the actual improvements; San Diego Bay and Peninsula, the Entrance \ to the Harbor, Paoint Loma, and the Los Coronados Islands, twenty miles distanct \ in the Pacific Ocean \ [Key 1-12]
l.l. in ink: San Diego, California-1876 \ cop. 2
l.c.: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by Schneider & Kueppers, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C.
l.r.: Bancrofts & Co., Lithographers, San Francisco, Cal. \ The County Seat of San Diego County and the proposed Terminus of the Texas Pacific Railroad. Present Population, \ about 4,000. A thriving commercail town; publishes two newspapers, "San Diego Union" \ and "World, " weekly and daily editions." \ [keys 13-24]
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

1978.16
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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