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[Robert Vere Scott panoramic photographs of San Francisco].
BANC PIC 2020.015:1-3--C folder 1; BANC PIC 2020.015:4-7--C folder 2; BANC PIC 2020.015:8-11--C folder 3; BANC PIC 2020.015
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Title:
[Robert Vere Scott panoramic photographs of San Francisco]Creator/Contributor:
Scott, Robert Vere, creator, photographer.Abstract:
Includes street scenes and cityscape views taken at various locations in San Francisco.
Date:
1920 (issued)Contents:
1. Statuary to mechanics. Battery, Bush & Market Streets -- 2. Grant Ave. & Market St., San Francisco -- 3. Market, Post &
Montgomery Streets, San Francisco -- 4. [View above Union Square, looking toward Hotel St. Francis] -- 5. San Francisco from
Stanford Court -- 6. San Francisco. [View above Geary, looking toward Market St.] -- 7. San Francisco. [View above Market
St., looking west toward Nob Hill] -- 8. San Francisco Bay. [Ferry terminal, south of Ferry Building] -- 9. San Francisco.
[View of city from Yerba Buena Island?] -- 10. Palace of Fine Arts, P.P.I.E., S.F. -- 11. -- Palace of Fine Arts
Subject:
n-us-caPalace of Fine Arts (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Photographs
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer's name, printed in negative on all prints, appears alternately as Ro. Vere Scott, Ro Vere Scott and R. Vere Scott.
Captions printed in negative for most images.
Robert Vere Scott panoramic photographs of San Francisco, BANC PIC 2020.015, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Purchase ; from Gael Newton ; 2019.
Per seller's correspondence: Robert Vere Scott was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1877. Arrived in California in 1916. Worked
as a photographer first in Oakland, then in 1917 in San Francisco, where he would remain in practice unitl at least 1936.
Worked chiefly in the panoramic format. Also known as Rovere Scott.
Type:
graphicPanoramic photographs-California-San Francisco.
Physical Description:
photoprint
11 photographs in 3 folders : gelatin silver prints ; sheets 23 x 57 cm (panoramic format)
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 2020.015:1-3--C folder 1
BANC PIC 2020.015:4-7--C folder 2
BANC PIC 2020.015:8-11--C folder 3
BANC PIC 2020.015