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Description
This image is one of the earliest images of Mission Santa Clara, after 1855. The adobe wall extends from the Baptistry to the arch of old gate to Major Domo Ignacio Alviso's headquarters. The building at right, known as California Hotel, was a mission adobe that became an inn in the 1840's. It was used by Santa Clara College for a dormitory and classroom until it fell in the 1906 earthquake. The second floor of the California Hotel was added in 1855, by John Nobili, S.J., founder of the College. Per McKevitt, this daguerreotype is believed to have been taken by Carlton E. Watkins between 1855, when the clock was installed in the bell tower, and before 1857 when the College acquired its own daguerreotype apparatus. The sign over the front gate reads ""Santa Clara College.""
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