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Title
Alpine Toll Gate on Mount Tamalpais
Creator
Unknown
Contributor
Skinner, Nancy M
Date Created and/or Issued
1987
late 1920s
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
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Mill Valley Public Library
Mill Valley Public Library History Room, 375 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, 94941, 415-389-4292 x131
Late 1920's
Copyright by Mill Valley Public Library
Description
Car driving up road with sign overhead reading ""Ridgecrest Boulevard"" (a private road), ""California Most Scenic Drive"", ""To Top of Mt. Tamalpais 7 Miles"". Toll house and another car are in the background, car in background appears to be creating a cloud of dust. Sign on the left side of the road says ""Schedule of Prices for Admission to Ridgecrest, $1.00 per car with 2 passengers, .25 each add pass, .75 motorcycle and owner"".
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print; 18 x 13cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt5p3025n3
CMLPL_026
photo cabinet 1, Mount Tamalpais
Language
English
Subject
Mountains
Mountain roads
Toll roads
Tolls
Students
Old automoobiles
Alpine Toll Gate
Place
Ridgecrest Boulevard
Mount Tamalpais
Source
Selected photograph from page 109 of ""Mount Tamalpais A History"" by Lincoln Fairley

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