Title:
Alcatras Island [Alcatraz].
Creator/Contributor:
Fardon, G. R. (George R.), 1806-1886., photographer
Abstract:
View from North Beach across San Francisco Bay to Alcatraz Island, with posts marking off water lots (to be filled and sold)
in foreground. Meggs' Wharf is at left center.
Date:
[May 1855]
Subject:
San Francisco (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Note:
Two close variant versions of this view exist in seven known copies of the Fardon album. This version, with no ship at Meiggs'
Wharf, appears to found only in the Bancroft Library and Beinecke Library copies of the album.
Type:
Salted paper prints
Local Call Number:
F869.S3.9 F138x:26--VAULT
Filename:
brk00041356_8a.tif
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