Content/DescriptionRight-reading landscape view looking over town with hills in distance. White clapboard house in foreground. In middleground, right of center, buildings bear signs reading "Foundry" and "American Hotel". Sign left of center reads "Washington / Stable / P.E. Weeks." Other signs along Washington St. at left, read "Jacob..."; "[E.? ] Rowlson & Co. Blacksmith & Plow Shop / Wagons Made and Repaired"; "... Mexicana"; "... Store", etc.
Title
[View of Petaluma, California, looking east down Washington Street.]
Published
ca. 1855-1865?
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 2000.053--ffALB VAULT
Type
Image
Extent
1 photograph : collodion positive on glass (ambrotype?); oversize plate, visible image 22.8 x 33.4 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
View from almost identical vantage point as Kuchel & Dresel's 1857 lithograph of Petaluma, a copy of which is present in the Robert B. Honeyman collection of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1963.002:0819--B)
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum backing.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: frame. Material: wood. Dimensions: 40.3 x 50.7 cm. Notes: silk cord attached to back of frame.</physfacet>;;;
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