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[View of Petaluma, Calif. looking down Washington Street] [graphic]
BANC PIC 2000.053LOCAL
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Title:

[View of Petaluma, Calif. looking down Washington Street]

Abstract:

Right-reading landscape view looking over town with hills in distance. White clapboard house in foreground. In middleground, right of center, buildings bear signs reading "Foundry" and "American Hotel". Sign left of center reads "Washington / Stable / P.E. Weeks." Other signs along Washington St. at left, read "Jacob..."; "[E.? ] Rowlson & Co. Blacksmith & Plow Shop / Wagons Made and Repaired"; "... Mexicana"; "... Store", etc.

Date:

[ca. 1855-186-?] (issued)

Subject:

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Cities and towns -- California -- Petaluma -- Pictorial works
Petaluma (Calif.) -- Pictorial works

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographer unknown.
In vintage frame.
View from almost identical vantage point as Kuchel & Dresel's 1857 lithograph of Petaluma, a copy of which is present in the Robert B. Honeyman collection of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1963.002:0819--B)
ORIGINAL: RESTRICTED. USE ONLINE DIGITAL IMAGE ONLY. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Also available online.

Type:

graphic
Ambrotypes.
Mammoth plates.
Cityscapes-California-Petaluma.

Physical Description:

graphic
photoprint
1 photograph : b&w, collodion positive on glass; visible image 22.8 x 33.4 cm.

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC PIC 2000.053LOCAL

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

ORIGINAL: RESTRICTED. USE ONLINE DIGITAL IMAGE ONLY. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.