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Tintype [sic] in ornate case "Fred Stickney". Note: Photograph is actually a daguerreotype (12/18/90).

Engraving of Mark Hopkins, ca. 1871. Engraving. Description: Protrait of Mark Hopkins, engraving. Head and shoulders portrait from the left side, subject is bearded. Condition: Fair, image had...

pages from scrapbook with photographs. Description: x. Photo of Arnold Genthe by Laura Adams.

This is a black and white photograph that shows a bust studio portrait of a young man with short dark hair wearing a light colored buttondown shirt.

Round platter with two faces line drawn with glazes in white, brown, and blue. The rim is decorated with small dots along the surface.

This is a hardbound book with a leather cover and tipped-in photogravures. The text contains a translation of a selection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and attributed to...

Rectangular sheet color etching, aquatint, and drypoint on paper with deckled bottom edge. The composition includes a portrait of a female figure shown in profile with head and shoulders visible...

Nine lithographs with silkscreen on paper are framed in a cluster. Five long and narrow prints with black and white images of men in uniform fit together in a rough triangular form at top....

This is a cast bronze full body sculpture of the artist Xavier Martinez holding a painter's palette.

This is a painted cement wall hanging of a woman with red lips, blue eyes, and prominent eyebrows. The woman has a long braid of brunette hair decorated with red and yellow roses that extends...

This is a painted cement wall hanging portrait of a man with white hair and a goatee that appears on a brown oval plaque.

This is a painted cement sculpture bust of a nude Caucasian woman with long blonde hair. The woman's face appears to have heavy makeup, with lipstick, dark eye shadow, and round circles of...

This is a painted cement wall hanging portrait of Mary Ehn. The composition shows a female face with red lips within an oval wreath of brunette hair. Red flowers appear below the woman's...

This is a painted cement wall hanging portrait with a metal hanging hook imbedded in the top. The composition shows a female face with red lips and prominent eyebrows. The woman has two long...

NOTES: Dougherty Estate #B4 Flo Allen -- Legendary Artist's Model San Francisco Chronicle June 18, 1997 | By J. L. Pimsleur A memorial celebration is planned for Florence Wysinger "Flo...

APPROXIMATE DATE: 1855 NOTES: Purchased by donor several years ago in California.

Though credited to Johnson's Sacramento studio, this daguerreotype probably depicts a San Francisco fireman. The shield on his helmet reads "Pacific 8 M.R." While there was apparently no engine...

APPROXIMATE DATE: 1853 NOTES: Private collector and others believe that this is the only scene of the gold rush miner and cart in a gold rush scene of land, and not river mining.

Inez Brooks-Myers, History curator, points out that the frock coat is in the Chesterfield style, with a velvet collar.