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Title
Vallejo. From Main Avenue, Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal.
Creator
Topley, James, 1826-1905
Date Created and/or Issued
[189-?]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
2008-1422
PHOTO: SOLANO COUNTY: MARE ISLAND
Shows street, buildings and ship moored to dock on Island. Across strait buildings and docks of Vallejo visible. "Topley" -- handwritten in lower left corner.
James Topley came to Vallejo in 1852 eventually running drugstore. He was amateur photographer, taking pictures of Vallejo beginning in 1850's. After his death, his sons James Henry and William Henry continued photographing Vallejo into 1920's. $
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print on paper mount ; 4 3/8 x 7 1/2 in. image on 6 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. mount.
Identifier
(C)001389194CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-2506
Subject
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Naval yards & naval stations--California--Vallejo
Ships--California--Vallejo
Buildings--California--Vallejo
Cityscapesz--California--Vallejo
Vallejo (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
Vallejo
Vallejo (Calif.)

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