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Mission, San Jose. / Alameda County, California, Established June 11th, 1797

Description: Watkins no. 1237. A mammoth-plate copy of an original daguerreotype. Print is dark and softly focused. Label has a typo: "Esatblished."
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Date: approximately 1877, from daguerreotype approximately 1852
Call number: photCL Watkins 31
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