Circa 1890-1906 – An extensive album of 81 photographs, 38 large albumins documenting life at the Agnews State Asylum for the Insane at Santa Clara, California (the site of the greatest loss of life during San Francisco Earthquake) accompanied by an additional 43 silver gelatin snapshots showing the extensive damage to the facility caused by that disaster
Santa Clara, California: Circa 1890-1906. Album. This 10½ x 8½“ album contains 81 photographs in total: 38 affixed albumen photographs (8” x 6”) and 43 silver gelatin snapshots (mostly 4” X 3”) 28 affixed and 15 laid in. There are also two larger photographs of an unnamed woman and one..... More