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Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916 Nine photographs of San Francisco ca. 1877

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03030.24 Author/Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916 Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1873 Pagination: 45.5 cm. x 37 cm. Order a Copy

1) "Cliff House" [the famous restaurant] 2+3) Outcroppings with sea lions (both faded), 4) row houses, 5) Victorian mansion, 6) white-breasted seabirds on a rock, 7) view of churches, 8) chicks of seabirds, 9) coromants on a cliff.

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

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