San Francisco album: Photographs of the most beautiful views and public buildings of San Francisco
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San Francisco album: Photographs of the most beautiful views and public buildings of San Francisco

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Bound volume

George Robinson Fardon

Maker
American, b. England, 1806–1886

San Francisco album: Photographs of the most beautiful views and public buildings of San Francisco

ca. 1856
Bound volume with albumenized salted paper prints
Overall: 10 7/16 × 8 11/16 × 13/16 in. (26.5 × 22 × 2 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
DescriptionContains thirty-three salted paper prints depicting views of San Francisco. Bound in half black leather gilt and black boards.
Inscriptions Printed in gilt, on spine, TC: SAN FRANCISCO \ ALBUM

Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on end paper recto, TC: Rarissime [underlined] album de vues de San-Francisco \ Cliché verre (collodion ou albumine) \ d'après salé ([illegible]), vernis après montage. \ Les planches 5, 9, et 19 montrent des ateliers de daguerreotype. \ vers 1850.
Inscribed in pencil, on endpaper recto, C: Pub. 1856-7
Printed in black ink on scalloped-oval label applied to endpaper recto, TR: COLLECTION \ G.CROMER

Stamped in red ink, on title page recto, B: IMP\GEH
Stamped in blue ink, on title page verso, B: 182

Stamped in purple ink, on back flyleaf recto, BR: Eastman Historical \ Photographic Collection \ 175-451 [numerical inscribed in black ink]
Inscribed in black ink, on back flyleaf recto, BRC: See also 175-182

Stamped in red ink, on back endpaper, recto, C: IMP\GEH
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