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Description
The Forbes Adobe exterior wall. Cut out in the adobe is a door and six windows. The windows are framed with wood and planks are visible in the midsection of the adobe. Only three walls of the building remain and the rest of the building is deteriorated. The adobe was built by James Alexander Forbes near the town of Milpitas possibly around the 1830s, and is reported to have been the first two story structure built in Santa Clara County.
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image/jpeg2000 Scanned with Epson Perfection V500 Photo as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed 8-bit, JPEG format. Auto Level image adjustment applied using Photoshop CS2.
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