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Notable people of San Francisco and other miscellaneous photographs

Description: Notable people of San Francisco and the Bay Area: William A. Leidesdorff (drawing); photocollage of 148 headshots of "distinguished citizens of San Francisco" who participated in the Centennial Anniversary, 1876; photocollage of 40 "Public Men of San Francisco"(1870s?); Alfred J. Share, Oakland reporter; Rev. Benjamin Akerly; Charles McPhail Hitchcock, Martha T. Hitchcock (copies); Lillie Hitchcock Coit in firefighter helmet; Isaac Green Messec, Joseph Pownell, Gen. I. H. Dewall; E. Calishen; E. Skidmore (early San Francisco printer); I. B. Pownall as a boy. Other portrait photographs in this folder: U.S. Army general Edward Canby by Carleton Watkins; Rev. John Sackville Sharp (1799-1895) and fifth generation grandchild Marjorie Clover; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Franklin Thorpe; Sarah M. Cool; Gen. Stonewall Jackson; Eva Mackay (Princess Colonna) as a child (1862?); Elizabeth Smith (mourning photograph).
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Production date: approximately 1860s-1902.
Call number: photPF 2760-2779
Provenance: Acquired from Grabhorn, 1945 and other sources.

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Image of the Golden Gate Bridge with San Francisco skyline and Coit Tower behind; orange at lower right.

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Image of the Coit Memorial Tower on Telegraph Hill and surrounding tress in San Francisco, California.

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Photographs of San Francisco and Azusa

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Consists of twelve photographs, including one cyanotype print. photPF 340-344 are photographs of works by Maurice Sterne and Diego Rivera in the Albert M. Bender Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Art. photPF 345-345 depict the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. photPF 347 consists of three photographs depicting the effect of the 1868 San Francisco Earthquake by Eadweard Muybridge. photPF 348 is a cabinet card depicting California Street from Sansome Street in San Francisco, approximately 1880s by Taber. photPF 349 is a cyanotype of the H. Canoll & Co. dry good store, possibly in Asuza.

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Lacy Park, San Marino, California and other miscellaneous photographs

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O. V. Lange's Views of San Francisco and other photographs

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Volume of bound programs of "The Footlights" (Imperial Theatre) and "The Play," a theatrical magazine for San Francisco (Vol I, nos. I-15).

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