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Title: 1910 Frenchman's Tower
Contributor: Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998 (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1910
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Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Historic Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the California Room: http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.htm
Description: Photograph of Frenchman's Tower built by Frenchman Peter Coutts (Paulin Caperon) in the 1870s. The hollow tower is built of brick and its original purpose is unknown. It stands next to Page Mill Road on the grounds of Stanford University.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg2000
Scaled to 3000 pixels width. Grayscale strip cropped from image. Scanning outsourced to Northern Micrographics as part of the Local History Digital Resources Project, 2005-2006. Technical metadata is limited
Extent: 9 x 12cm.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/arbuckle/id/676
Language: English
Subject: Round towers
Sculpture
Stanford University
Coutts, Peter
Place: Palo Alto
California
Source: Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection

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