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Title: Frenchman's Tower Photograph
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1910-1930
Publication Information: San Jose Public Library. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. California Room
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Collection on Santa Clara County's Agricultural Past
Rights Information: Public domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Photograph of Frenchman's Tower built by Frenchman Peter Coutts in the 1870s. The hollow tower is built of brick and its original purpose is unknown. It stands next to Page Mill Road on the grounds of Stanford University.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print; 9 x 12cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt238nd17d
CSJ_111
ARB-A108
Language: English
Subject: Towers
Palo Alto (Calif.)--Buildings, Structures, etc
Stanford University
Buildings--California--Palo Alto
Coutts, Peter
Place: Palo Alto (Calif.)

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