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Land Case page: 2239 (of 100 ND) Dome topped. Toward left is the site of an Indian mound or midden. A sepia-toned, dome-topped photograph from 1861 depicts a flat, open landscape dominated by an unpaved dirt foreground and a series of hills in the background. On the left side of the horizon, a large, dark, rounded hill rises steeply, while a smaller, lower hill sits to the right with a small white structure, likely a house, visible on its crest. Between the foreground and the hills, a thin wooden fence line runs horizontally across the middle ground, separating different sections of the grassy, sparsely vegetated plain. The sky is a uniform, light pale color with no visible clouds. Mounted below the photograph is a wide strip of aged paper containing multiple lines of handwritten cursive text, including "July 24, 1861," "Rancho San Antonio," "100 ND," and "No. 2239". A small color calibration strip with red, yellow, green, blue, and grayscale squares is placed at the very bottom edge of the mount. Image description generated by AI (Gemini 3.0 Fast) and reviewed, January 2026 .
Land titles--California--Cases--Photographs Contra Costa County (Calif.)--Pictorial works Rancho San Antonio (Alameda County, Calif.)--Pictorial works San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--Pictorial works El Cerrito (Calif.)--Pictorial works United States. District Court (California : Northern District). Land case. 100 Salted paper prints Mammoth plates Photographs
Place
Contra Costa County (Calif.) Pictorial works Rancho San Antonio (Alameda County, Calif.) San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) El Cerrito (Calif.)
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