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Title: Photograph of an African American man with Cliff House backdrop
Creator: Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Contributor: Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1900?
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana
Rights Information: Public domain
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description: Tintype of an African American man in San Francisco. He is seated in front of a painted backdrop depicting the Cliff House
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
Still image
Title devised by cataloger
Date estimate based on depiction being of the second Cliff House, known as the Gingerbread Palace (1896-1907)
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : tintype ; plate 92 x 64 mm
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb6834535g
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Twentieth century
African Americans
Photographs
San Francisco (California)
Place: San Francisco (California)

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