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Title: Powder Works from the S.P.C.R.R. Santa Cruz, Cal., 5012
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: 188u
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Stereo-4898.
Orange mount, purple back.
Shows buildings, Peyton house in background.
Powder Works established in 1861 by San Francisco capitalists in answer to lack of black powder due to Civil War. Built along San Lorenzo River two and a half miles north of Santa Cruz. Second superintendent, Bernard Peyton, built mansion on hilltop in modern Italian style.
Type: image
Format: Stereographic
Stereograph card
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 stereograph card ; 3 1/2 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001560718CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: California Powder Works--Photographs
Powder mills--California--Santa Cruz County--Photographs
Factories--California--Santa Cruz County
Santa Cruz County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Stereographs
Place: California
Santa Cruz County
Santa Cruz County (Calif.)

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