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Title
[Smith and Porter's coffee house and hotel on the corner of Sansome and Sacramento Streets, San Francisco.]
Creator
Shaw and Johnson, photographer
Contributor
Shaw and Johnson, photographer
Shaw, Seth Louis, 1816-1872, photographer
Johnson, G. H. (George Howard), b. 1823, photographer
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca.1852]
Publication Information
The Bancroft Library;;, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, Phone: (510) 642-6481, Fax: (510) 642-7589, Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu;;, URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections
Rights Information
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Description
Date based on dates of photographers' brief partnership.
See bio. in Mautz. EHI gives George H., only Mautz provides "Howard".
Three-quarter view of a two story building, with men standing on the street level porch and the second story porch. A horse is off to the side, and in front, an empty cart is tipped up. Posters on corner advertise the sailing of Pacific Mail Steamship Oregon (for Panama), and others [the California and the Unicorn?].
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; whole plate, visible image 19 x 14 cm.
Form/Genre
Daguerreotypes
Architectural Photographs
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/28722/bk0000x9f3w
BANC PIC 1905.16242:099--CASE
brk00040084_8a.tif
Subject
Men
Pioneers--California
Buildings
Cities and towns
Commercial buildings
Place
San Francisco (Calif.)
Pictorial works

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