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Description
Photograph of the ruins of an adobe house built by James Alexander Forbes near the town of Milpitas. Only two walls of the original adobe are standing in this photograph. This adobe may have been built in the 1830s, and is reported to have been the first two story structure built in Santa Clara County.
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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
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