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Description
View from the beach of San Francisco's Cliff House Restaurant and Seal Rocks, ca.1900. The stately six-story Victorian structure is perched on the edge of the palisade overlooking the ocean. An elevated wooden walkway leading to it is visible at right. The seal rocks stick up in a mound out of the ocean in the distance at left. Seven people stand on the beach in the foreground.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w 17 x 22 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
Cliff House Restaurants, lunch rooms, etc Ocean Rocks Seals (Animals) Beaches San Francisco County--Architecture--Cliff houses and seal rocks Commercial sites
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California San Francisco USA
Source
1-48- [Microfiche number] 4756 [Accession number] CHS-4756 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity] unidentified no: James-1207 [Identifying number]
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