Author: Taber, Isaiah West
Title: [Photograph] State Capitol Building, Sacramento, California
Description: [San Francisco], Taber, 1890. White card mount. 9 x 7.5 inch image on x 10 x 8 inch card. Albumen photograph. "6359 State Capitol, Sacramento, Cal." in negative at lower edge. Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912) bounced between the east and west coasts as a youth. After opening his first studio in Syracuse, New York, he returned to California where he eventually established the "Taber Gallery" at No. 12 Montgomery Street in 1871. His business was quite successful with a stock of over 30,000 Western views, though many were the unacknowledged works of others. When the San Francisco earthquake led to the destruction of his vast collection, his business folded. This image is not at Berkeley nor on Calisphere, but is similar to "The Capitol, Sacramento, Cal. B 2369," (at Berkeley)except this image is taken closer to the entrance, with people in the distance at the steps, and provides a more powerful view. Very good, very faint fading, mainly to the sky.

Keywords: , Americana, Western Americana, California , Photographs


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