View of a portion of the city and bay, from Taylor street - in the distance the U.S. Hospital

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Title: View of a portion of the city and bay, from Taylor street - in the distance the U.S. Hospital
Alternative Title: San Francisco album
Creator: Fardon, G. R.
Published / Created: [1855?]
Abstract: Frontispiece for "San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco. Photographed by G. R. Fardon. Published by Herre & Bauer, At the office of the San Francisco Journal, 66 Merchant Street."
Description: G.R. Fardon traveled from New York to San Francisco in 1849. There he experimented with daguerreotypes, and developed a process by which prints on paper could be made from collodion glass plate negatives. In 1856 Herre & Bauer printed his San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco.
Title from: Fardon's San Francisco Album.
Provenance: Ex libris Jacob Gundlach. Purchased from Fraenkel Gallery on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1999.
Extent: 1 photographic print : oval image 9 x 12 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Access: Public
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Citation: G. R. Fardon, View of a Portion of the City and Bay, from Taylor Street. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.