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Title
Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, No. 281
Creator
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued
[1868]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
Restricted original.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description
Individual plates in: [Photographs of California and Oregon, n.d.], v. 2, plate no. [1].
Elevated view of San Francisco showing dirt streets, buildings (mostly homes), wharf and sailing ships in the Bay. Golden Gate visible in distance.
2009-1769.
Also have negative no.: 9146 (70 mm) and 29,113 (4x5 in. color transparency)
Restricted original.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print : albumen ; image 18 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. on page 24 x 29 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001416069CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Cities & towns--California--San Francisco
Piers & wharves--California--San Francisco
Bays (Bodies of water)--California--San Francisco
Sailing ships--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
San Francisco Bay (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Aerial views
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)
San Francisco Bay (Calif.)

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