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Title
Charming Avalon and its Bay - fair as the old-time sun-god's retreat, Santa Catalina Island, off California
Contributor
Underwood & Underwood
Works and Sun Sculpture Studios
Date Created and/or Issued
c1902
Publication Information
New York : Underwood & Underwood
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
STEREO-2791
IN BOXED SET: VAULT *c917.94 U56
Individual stereos in: Stereoscopic views of California.
Box title: Seeing California through the stereoscope.
Gray mount.
A hilltop view down into Avalon and its bay; in the foreground are cacti and wildflowers; at bottom are buildings and on hilltop at extreme right stands a house overlooking the bay; on the beach below are boats and groups of people; in the bay are many boats with a sailboat putting up its sail on the right; toward the upper reaches of the bay a wharf extends out into the bay; a large boat or possibly two stand on the far side of the wharf; behind the waterline and to the left is a street with buildings lined up and people walking on the street; in the background shrub-covered hills descend toward the bay.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 3 1/2 x 7 in.
Identifier
(C)001391922CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-5259
Subject
Bays (Bodies of water)--California--Santa Catalina Island
Cityscapes--California--Avalon
Piers & wharves--California--Avalon
Ships--California--Avalon
Boats--California--Avalon
Avalon (Calif.)--Photographs
Stereographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
Santa Catalina Island
Avalon
Avalon (Calif.)

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