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[Frances Benjamin Johnston, with Maddie (her mother), 1903, with a painted backdrop of the Cliff House in San Francisco, California ]
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Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item.
Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.
Caption card tracings: Shelf.
Originally a Spanish (later Mexican) mission and pueblo, it was conquered by the United States in 1846 and by an invading army of prospectors following the 1848 discovery of gold in its hinterland. The Gold Rush made San Francisco a cosmopolitan metropolis with a frontier edge. In early 1900s the city tried to remake itself into a grand and modern Paris of the West.
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01/01/1903
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Library of Congress
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