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Title
1900 Sutro Library bookplate, San Francisco
Contributor
Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998 (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
Contributing Institution
San José Public Library, California Room
Collection
Historic Photograph Collection
Rights Information
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the California Room: http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.htm
Description
Photograph of Sutro Library bookplate showing the Cliff House, Sutro Heights and a Virginia City mine. Sutro accumulated an impressive private collection of books; in 1917, the California State Library used this collection to form the Sutro Library.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg2000
Scanned with Epson Perfection V350 Photo Scanner as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed into 8-bit, JPEG format and Auto Level image adjustment applied using Photoshop CS2.
Extent
8 x 10 in.
Identifier
http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/arbuckle/id/660
Language
English
Subject
Bookplates
Libraries
Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
Place
San Francisco
California
Source
Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection

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