B.F. Butler

B.F. Butler was one of the leading printers and lithographers in Gold Rush-era San Francisco, active in the city’s print trade during the critical early 1850s when the demand for maps, directories, and official publications was intense. He is known to have printed Eddy’s 1851 “Red Line” map — then the most authoritative map of the city — and subsequently produced both maps included in the present Manual of the Corporation of the City of San Francisco. He later operated in partnership as Sterett & Butler, printers, engravers, and publishers at 145 Clay Street, San Francisco.