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San Francisco and Santa Barbara views from the collection of Mrs. Benton H. Skillings [graphic].
BANC PIC 1977.117--PICLOCAL
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Title:
San Francisco and Santa Barbara views from the collection of Mrs. Benton H. SkillingsAbstract:
Includes 22 photographic prints of the interior of the San Francisco Mint (including workers, operations, managers, and offices,
ca. 1899), 2 glass negatives of the interior of the Victorian Keeney home in San Francisco, 25 souvenir stamps from the Panama
Pacific International Exposition, and a set of 26 small souvenir photographs from the same exposition. Also present are 2
photographs of Santa Barbara (ca. 1890?), and 2 photographs and several clippings of San Francisco's Protestant Orphan Asylum
(ca. 1895?), and a number of San Francisco snapshots (ca. 1905). Portraits of Albert Tunstall Spotts of the Mint are present,
along with portraits of Colton and Morgan family members and others.
Date:
ca. 1890-ca. 1920 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caSpotts, A. T -- Pictorial works
Spotts, A. T -- Portraits
Old United States Mint (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Protestant Orphan Asylum (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Mints -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Santa Barbara (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
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Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographers unknown.
Related collection containing complementary 1899 photographs of the U.S. Mint: Frank A. Leach photographs of the U.S. Mint
in San Francisco, Calif. (BANC PIC 2020.011).
Type:
graphicEphemera-California.
Physical Description:
graphic
photoprint
ca. 70 photographic prints, 2 negatives, 28 photomechanical prints + 1 copy of the Marin County Journal
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1977.117--PICLOCAL