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Jose Augustin Bernal poses for a formal portrait. Bernal was born at the Presidio in San Francisco and at twenty-two entered the San Francisco Company of the Spanish Militia. He was eventually stationed at Mission San Jose. He ran Rancho Santa Teresa with his brother Bruno after the death of their father Jose Joaquin Bernal. After the Mexican and Spanish land grants were rendered invalid by the US government in 1853, he petitioned for the land of Rancho Santa Teresa, which had been granted to his father, and won. He went on to build his own adobe home, Rancho El Valle in Pleasanton, and the first race track in California.
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image/jpeg2000 Scanned with Epson Perfection V500 Photo as a 1200 dpi TIFF image in 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed 8-bit, JPEG format. Auto Level image adjustment applied using Photoshop CS2.
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