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First Street, San Francisco by Carleton E. Watkins — VisualArtsDB

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First Street, San Francisco

First Street, San Francisco

First Street, San Francisco

Carleton E. Watkins

1864

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

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Piwyac, or the Vernal Fall, 300 feet, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal.

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Geyser Hotel, J.C. Susenbeth, Proprietor, Cal., Sonoma County, Cal.

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[Century Plant, San Gabriel, Cal.]

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[Unidentified girl and boy seated on grass in front of large rock]

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Outline of the Cathedral Rocks

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