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This horizontal, sepia-toned photograph features a wooden Gothic Revival church positioned centrally in the midground. The church building has a steeply pitched gabled roof and a prominent square bell tower on its left side, which is topped by a tall, slender spire and a small cross. The facade of the tower includes a circular clock face above a set of tall, narrow arched windows. To the left of the church, a smaller house with a gabled roof and a chimney is visible behind a cluster of dark, rounded trees. A white picket fence runs across the foreground, separating the church grounds from a light-colored dirt road or sidewalk. To the right of the church, the landscape opens up to show a few scattered trees and distant, low-lying hills under a pale, clear sky.

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Title
St. Matthews Church, San Mateo
Full Collection Name
Sun Sketches of San Mateo, 1875
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1974.006:21--ffALB
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The Bancroft Library
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Image description generated by AI (Gemini 3.0 Fast) and reviewed, January 2026 .

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