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Views of San Francisco

Published / Created:
[ca. 1859-1860]
Call Number:
WA Photos 231
Image Count:
113
Abstract:
A photograph album containing 46 varnished salted paper prints of views of San Francisco dated 1852-1860, 14 of them signed by G.R. Fardon, which includes all but 6 of the photographs in Fardon's San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful ...
Alternative Title:
San Francisco album
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 Francisc...
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Views of San Francisco