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Title: The Stanford Hermit
Date Created and/or Issued: 1911
Publication Information: Palo Alto, Cal. : Robinson & Crandall
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Shows Domenico Grosso in his garden. Addressed to Jesse TTT. Jackson, Jr., Boise, Idaho.
2015-0482.
Possibly born near Genoa, Italy in 1830's, came to California in 1869. Known as the Stanford Hermit or the hermit of Jasper Ridge, lived within the Stanford-owned Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve in the Portola Valley. Mined the property for silver. Died in 1915.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print (postcard) ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001534112CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Grosso, Domenico,, d. 1915--Photographs
Italian Americans--California--Palo Alto--Photographs
Miners--California--Palo Alto
Pioneers--California--Palo Alto
Palo Alto (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Photographic prints
Photographic postcards
Portrait photographs
Place: California
Palo Alto
Palo Alto (Calif.)

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