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Title: Allegorical Fountain, Taber's Palace of Photography
Creator: Floorman, I. S
Date Created and/or Issued: 1894
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted: slides not available for public viewing.
Description: 2009-0118.
Single slide in: Magic lantern slides : California Midwinter International Exposition, San Francisco, 1894, no. 10.
Fountain topped with female figure representing California, various figures representative of California's industries, such as gold miners, Pomona bearing basket of fruit, cherubs pulling on wine press, sea lions, etc. seen below her. Mechanical Arts Building and Taber's visible in background.
Fountain built from designs of Ruper Schmid and Marion Wells.
Black paper mask, cover glass and taped edges.
Online image only, no photographic print available.
Restricted: slides not available for public viewing.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Projected graphic
Projected medium
Extent: 1 slide : lantern, b/w ; 3 1/4 x 4 in.
Identifier: (C)001393155CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-6512
Language: English
Subject: California Midwinter International Exposition, (1894 :. San Francisco, Calif.)--Photographs
Taber, I. W.. (Isaiah West),, 1830-1912
Exhibition buildings--California--San Francisco
Fairs--California--San Francisco
Fountains--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Lantern slides
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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