View from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, CA, 1850 Sep

View includes at least 4 storeships. From left to right, are, possibly ARKANSAS, then GENERAL HARRISON with APOLLO behind and to the right is the NIANTIC (built 1835; ship 3m). This image is a photo of a letterhead copied by Edwin Moody after Swan's artwork. Illustrated in Peter's "California on Stone." Image reproduced in "Notes on the Gold Rush Ships" by Karl Kortum et al, p. 16, beneath which he writes that the ARKANSAS was located north of Battery Street on the Pacific Street Wharf. See:[CR][CR]rrr[CR]F[CR]868[CR]S157[CR]Y4[CR][CR]Noted on positive enclosure that "contact positive taken from negative in Maritime Museum's collection." VIEW OF SAN FRANCISCO FROM TELEGRAPH HILL.[CR]Published by Cooke & Le Count