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Title
Woman and telescope atop the summit of Mount Tamalpais, East Peak
Creator
Unknown
Contributor
Nancy Skinner
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
1987
Publication Information
Mill Valley Public Library
Scottwall Associates, 95 Scott Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
Contributing Institution
Mill Valley Public Library
Collection
Mill Valley History Photograph Collection
Rights Information
Copyrighted
Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. Images from the Mill Valley Public Library will be credited with the standard credit line: Courtesy of the Lucretia Little History Room, Mill Valley Public Library (and to the photographer or creator if known). This credit line is to appear alongside the reproduction. If a publication or film/video production uses material it may appear at the end.
Mill Valley Public Library
Mill Valley Public Library History Room, 375 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, 94941, 415-389-4292 x131
Circa 1900
Copyright by Mill Valley Public Library
Description
A woman wearing a large hat standing behind the guard rail next to a telescope on the East Peak of Mount Tamalpais surveying the panoramic view. Tamalpais locator remnants of concrete and pipe still visible to the right of the trail to Gardner Lookout. The marine exchange was built on the peak of Mount Tamalpais as an observation station between 1880 and 1890.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print; 16 x 10.5 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1r29q754
CMLPL_039
photo cabinet 1, Mount Tamalpais, negative 1269
Language
English
Subject
Mountains
Mountain peaks
Telescopes
Panoramic views
Panoramic photographs
Hiking
Trails & paths
Place
Mount Tamalpais
East Peak
Gardner Lookout
Source
Selected photograph from page 69 of ""Mount Tamalpais A History"" by Lincoln Fairley

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