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Alcatraz Island, San Francisco by Carleton E. Watkins — VisualArtsDB

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Alcatraz Island, San Francisco

Alcatraz Island, San Francisco

Alcatraz Island, San Francisco

Carleton E. Watkins

1863

Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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