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Fourteenth Industrial Exhibition stereographs: [graphic] : Mechanics' Institute, San Francisco, Calif.
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Title:
Fourteenth Industrial Exhibition stereographs: Mechanics' Institute, San Francisco, CalifCreator/Contributor:
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916, creatorAbstract:
Interior views of the Mechanics' Pavilion in San Francisco, Calif. One is a general interior view with a large fountain at
center, and the other shows the frames, mirrors, and mouldings exhibit of Sanborn, Vail & Co., a San Francisco-based artists'
materials firm.
Date:
1879 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caMechanics' Institute (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Photographs
Sanborn Vail & Company -- Photographs
Mechanics' Pavilion (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Photographs
Exhibitions -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Note:
Attribution to Carleton E. Watkins confirmed by comparison to other copies on Watkins New Series mounts in the collection
of the Society of California Pioneers. They are part of an unnumbered stereograph series of the exhibition.
Title and date supplied by cataloger.
Large format stereographs on yellow mounts with no captions or printed text. Photographic prints are not as closely cropped
as known copies on standared stereograph mounts.
Type:
graphicStereographs.
Physical Description:
graphic
photoprint
2 photographic prints : stereograph, albumen ; mounts 11.5 x 17.8 cm.
Language:
English