Content/DescriptionView from North Beach across San Francisco Bay to Alcatraz Island, with posts marking off water lots (to be filled and sold) in foreground. Meggs' Wharf is at left center.
Title
Alcatras Island [Alcatraz].
Published
May 1855
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
Other Identifiers
F869.S3.9 F138x:26--VAULT
Type
Image
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Two close variant versions of this view exist in seven known copies of the Fardon album. This version, with no ship at Meiggs' Wharf, appears to found only in the Bancroft Library and Beinecke Library copies of the album.
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