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Title: Davidson Brothers high wire act at the Coronado Boathouse
Alternative Title: Davison Brothers
Creator: Parker, F. (Photographer)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1883
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of spectators on a bridge watching the tightrope walkers the Davidson Brothers high wire act at the Coronado Boathouse in Coronado, San Diego County, California, with boats in the San Diego Bay in the background.
"Davison Brothers [i.e Davidson Brothers]"--text, on image. "[P]arker, Photographer, 740 Fifth Street, San Diego, Cal. Largest Collection of Views in Southern California"--text, printed on verso. Will Davidson and Louis Davidson were champion tight-rope walkers. Title transcribed from item; date devised from cataloger based on the history of the Coronado Boathouse, which was built in 1888 and an article about the Davidson Brothers in 1888 ("The Davidson brothers, tight-rope walkers, 'are performing perilous feats' on the high wire above the Cliff House near San Francisco" [Maysville, Kentucky, Evening Bulletin, 3 Apr 1888, page 3]).
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; mount 11 x 17 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20255
Subject: Aerialists
Boathouses
Circus performers
Crowds
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Coronado (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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