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Title
Santa Cruz, August, 1890
Date Created and/or Issued
1890
Publication Information
1890
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
Two-story frame house, picket fence, child in yard. Handwritten on verso: "House in which Arthur Peyton was born in 1872. Later was used as California Powder Works Office & family lived in house on top of hill".
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.
2010-5215.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print on boudoir card ; 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001421235CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Peyton, Arthur--Home and haunts--Photographs
California Powder Works--Photographs
Houses--California--Santa Cruz County
Santa Cruz County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Boudoir card photographs
Place
California
Santa Cruz County
Santa Cruz County (Calif.)

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