Isaiah West Taber
View of San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island
About this artwork
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artist:Isaiah West TaberAmerican (1830 - 1912)
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title:View of San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Albumen print
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measurements:12.40 x 20.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Gift of Mrs. Riddell in memory of Peter Fletcher Riddell, 1985
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accession number:PGP R 2176.5
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Isaiah West Taber
Isaiah West Taber
Isaiah West Taber was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. At nineteen he went to sea before joining a gold rush party bound for San Francisco but managed to make some money by selling a thousand pigs he had bought in the Marquesas Islands. After a spell in Syracuse, New York he returned to the west...
