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San Francisco album : photographs of the most beautiful views and public buildings / George Robinson Fardon ; with contributions by Rodger C. Birt ... [et al.].
- Title
- San Francisco album : photographs of the most beautiful views and public buildings / George Robinson Fardon ; with contributions by Rodger C. Birt ... [et al.].
- Author
- Fardon, G. R.
- Publication
- San Francisco : Chronicle Books : Fraenkel Gallery ; New York : H.P. Kraus, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | F869.S343 F37 1999 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 174 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
- Summary
- In the early 1850s, a British photographer arrived in San Francisco and became fascinated with the changing face of the city, which he captured in some of the earliest photographs on paper ever made in the United States. George Robinson Fardon's San Francisco Album documents a time of rapid growth and burgeoning prosperity in the wake of the California Gold Rush. As the earliest published photographic record of an American city, it is a work of both historic signficance and pioneering artistry.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- v – Catalogues raisonnés.
- v – Exhibition catalogs.
- History
- Pictorial works
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- George Robinson Fardon : photographer / Peter E. Palmquist -- The San Francisco album and its historical moment : photography, vigilantism, and western urbanization / Rodger C. Birt -- Narrative and illusion : harnessing the visual imagination / Joan M. Schwartz -- Catalogue raisonné of Fardon's San Francisco views / Marvin R. Nathan.
- ISBN
- 0811826309 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99029908^
- OCLC
- 41355704
- SCSB-12319212
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library