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Title
First Baptist Church (2 copies)
Contributor
Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912
Date Created and/or Issued
1873
Publication Information
San Francisco : I.W. Taber Art & Photographic Gallery
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
2008-1089 -- 2008-1090.
PHOTO: SAN FRANCISCO: CHURCHES: FIRST BAPTIST
View of a single story wood-frame building with two doors and a window in front. Men, women and a young boy are standing in front of the two doors. On back: "Erected July, 1849. The first Protestant Church erected in California, in which the first Free Public School of California, was organized and held from December, '49, to June, 1851." Handwritten on back: "Photo taken day before building was torn down, 1853."
Negative, nos. 19,271 and 26,687 (4 x 5 in.); also have second copy of the photo which on the back lists the names of six of the people posed in front of the church, accession no. 2008-1090.
Type
text
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Notated music
Extent
2 photographic prints mounted on a cabinet card ; 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001389261CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-2573
Subject
Churches--California--San Francisco
Schools--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Group portraits
Cabinet photographs
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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