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Description
2008-2320. Plates in photograph album: Photographic views of one hundred and twelve of the principal and most picturesque places of California, vol. 3, page 90. View of the Golden Gate taken from Black Point. Battery is visible in the foreground, with 2 cannons, a pile of cannon balls, and 2 soldiers. A goat grazes at left and the bay is visible beyond. United States Army built twelve-gun, two battery fortifications at Point San Jose Military Reservation (known as Black Point) in 1864. Known as East and West Batteries, Point San Jose. Guns mounted on wooden platforms behind brick and earth walls. Also have negative: no. 29,082 (4x5 in. color transparency).
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Identifier
(C)001391281CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVW-4611
Language
English
Subject
Forts & fortifications--California--San Francisco Batteries (Weaponry)--California--San Francisco San Francisco Bay (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints
Place
California San Francisco San Francisco Bay (Calif.)
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