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Title: Office of the old whalery in Monterey
Date Created and/or Issued: 18uu
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Stereo-4404.
Yellow mount, purple back.
Shows Dickenson's house and to right is Old Whaling Station, originally built by David Wight in 1847, became headquarters of Old Monterey Whaling Company. "First brick house in California, built and owned by Judge J. D. Dickenson, Monterey, 1847" -- handwritten on verso.
Gallant Duncan Dickenson came to Monterey in 1847, built home of fired bricks.
Type: image
Format: Stereographic
Stereograph card
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : stereograph ; 4 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001547347CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Dickenson, Gallant Duncan--Homes and haunts--Photographs
Wight, David--Homes and haunts--Photographs
Houses--California--Monterey
Adobe houses--California--Monterey
Whaling--California--Monterey
Monterey (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Stereographs
Place: California
Monterey
Monterey (Calif.)

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