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Title
Distant view of the exterior of the Cliff House Restaurant and Seal Rocks in San Francisco, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Contributor
Conrich, Robert S. (donated 1983)
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a distant view of the exterior of the Cliff House Restaurant and Seal Rocks in San Francisco, ca.1900. A wide, paved sidewalk lined with a low wall is visible from the left foreground towards the right. Three men wearing suits and hats and a woman wearing a dress can be seen sitting on a bench in front of the wall at right. A two-story building with a flat roof is visible in the background on the edge of a cliff. Rocks can be seen jutting out of the ocean in the left background, while a hill slopes upwards at right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
17 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9031
USC-0-1-1-9169 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-43268
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9031
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-43268.jpg
Subject
Cliff House
Restaurants, lunch rooms, etc
Ocean
Rocks
Seals (Animals)
San Francisco County--Architecture--Cliff houses and seal rocks
Beaches
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
San Francisco
USA
Source
43268 [Accession number]
CHS-43268 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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