About the Artwork
Telegraph Hill Cable Cars, San Francisco
ca. 1871
Isaac W. Taber
1830-1912
American
Unknown
Albumen print
Image: 7 3/4 × 4 7/8 inches (19.7 × 12.4 cm) Mount: 8 × 6 1/8 inches (20.3 × 15.6 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Mary Martin Semmes Fund
75.53
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Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, left edge, written vertically: The worlds first electric cable Tram S? [ill.] Greenwich S.F.
Printed, in negative, along lower edge: B 1271 Telegraph Hill. Cable, R.R. Taber Photo., San Francisco.
Provenance
Halsted Gallery (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA)
1975, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Isaac W. Taber, Telegraph Hill Cable Cars, San Francisco, ca. 1871, albumen print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mary Martin Semmes Fund, 75.53.
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