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Title
San Francisco's Cliff House Restaurant and Seal Rocks, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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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
Identifier
chs-m9036
USC-1-1-1-9174 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-4756
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9036
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-4756.jpg
Subject
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]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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