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Title: [Viscata wreck west of Fort Point]
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: 1868
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted original.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description: 2005-0644.
View of the British barque, "Viscata", on it's side along the beach outside San Francisco Bay near Fort Point. Shows Watkins' white-draped darkroom tent and supply wagon, camera set up at water's edge.
Restricted original.
Negative, no. 9,249 (4 x 5 in.).
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on linen : albumen ; image 15 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. on mount 16 1/8 x 21 in.
Identifier: (C)001386767CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-0048
Language: English
Subject: Sailing ships--California--San Franicsco
Shipwrecks--California--San Francisco
Photographic apparatus & supplies
San Francisco Bay (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place: California
San Franicsco
San Francisco
San Francisco Bay (Calif.)

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