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Title: [Bay District Race Track, 1874, San Francisco], no. 653
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [1874]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description: Attributed to Carleton Watkins - reasonably certain Library's collection of mammoth prints printed from negatives by Watkins.
Shows track, grandstand, center of track has crowd of horse-drawn buggies and carriages, water tower.
2010-0599.
Also have negative: no. 9250 (4x5 in.)
Restricted.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on linen : albumen ; 16 x 21 1/4 in. on mount 17 3/8 x 22 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001455120CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Racetracks--California--San Francisco
Racing--California--San Francisco
Grandstands--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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