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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of aview of the parapet of Adolph Sutro's grounds, San Francisco, ca.1890. The picture is dominated by a steep cliff, into which a flight of stairs has been cut. Standing on these steps are several women in black dresses. On top of the cliff is a low stone wall that resembles battlements on a castle, and more people can be seen standing behind it. Further behind the wall is a building with a flat roof, and on the left side of this building is a tower, complete with several flights of stairs reaching the top platform. On the left side of the cliff, a wrought-iron fence runs from the top of the cliff steps to the edge of another building at the extreme left of the picture. Below, statues are arranged sporadically on pedestals made from the cliff rock, as well as on the flat clearing farther down.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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