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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
Language
No linguistic content; Not applicable
Subject
Twentieth century
African Americans
Photographs
San Francisco (California)
Place
San Francisco (California)

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