2008.69.1

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Eadweard Muybridge

(Entrance to Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco)

photograph

circa 1869

albumen print

3.25 in HIGH x 6.6875 in WIDE
(8.25 cm HIGH x 16.99 cm WIDE)

2008.69.1

signed: "VIEWS OF THE PACIFIC COAST / CALIFORNIA, / The Flying Studio. HELIOS. San Francisco"

inscription: "PUBLISHED and entered according to Act of Congress, 1869, by EDW. J. MUYBRIDGE, in the Clerk's Office of Dist. Court, U.S. Dist. of Cal." (printed on right border)

exhibition history: OMCA, Gallery of California Art - a reproduction of this object exhibited in the Landscape Gallery, starting May 1, 2010.

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This is an albumen stereograph that depicts the entrance to Woodward's Gardens in San Francisco. Twin images are printed on cardboard that show a brick facade with an arched entryway at center. "Woodward's Gardens" appears above the entrance and is flanked at left and right by statues of figures in roman dress and bears holding poles. The photo shows a crowd of people standing in line to enter the gardens.

The carved bears visible in the stereograph are currently in the collections of the Oakland Museum of California (H86.74.1). "Helios" was a pseudonym of Edward Muybridge.

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