Seal Rocks
"Seal Rocks At Cliff House"
Postmarked July 22 1911
Photographer: Charles BierStadt
(reverse)
"4882 Seal Rocks from Cliff House, S.F. Cal. Taber Photo, San Francisco,
Cal"
Image courtesy of Dennis O'Rorke
Early view from Cliff House
postmarked 1911 (rev)
Glass Negative c1915 (ebay image)
"Seal Rocks by Moonlight, from Cliff House, San Francisco"
Copyright 1900, C. H. Graves
SEAL ROCKS - SAN FRANCISCO
Piggott '38
"B 3663 Seal Rocks from Sutro Heights, S.F., Cal. Taber Photo"
Source: OAC (link)
A.J. McDonald
Seal Rocks
"Complements of Bixby's Drug Store"
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Man atop Seal Rocks, 1890c, CH-057 (GGNRA Slide Collection)
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This is the last mention of the
bridge, so presumably it |
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The below image was widely reproduced back in the
day, attributed as showing Seal Rocks, but it was apparently false
advertising.
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Ben Butler |
San Francisco Chronicle, July 7 1895
The San Francisco call - July 07, 1895
Ben Butler's obituary, San Francisco Call, July 7 1895
Ben's obituary
even made the NY Times! Click here
Ben Butler, presumably deceased and
on the way to the taxidermist
Ben Butler on
display, 1895
"1204 Pacific Ocean---from the Cliff House, San Francisco, Cal."
Continent Stereoscopic Co., Publishers., N. 60 Nassau Street, New York
(click for reverse) (click
for estimated camera position)
The Steamer Yale
Image courtesy of Judy Cash Collection
"Album of Sutro
Heights"
(pre-1896)
Shows individual names for Seal
Rock Islands: Arch Rock, Hermit Rock, Repose Rock, Cone Rock
The San Francisco Call - Sep 28 1896
Charles Cavill swims around Seal Rock
San Francisco Chronicle - May 19, 1887
The San Francisco Examiner - Oct 16 1898
Humorous Tobacco Ad
San Bernardino - 12 Nov 1898
The San Francisco Call - Jun 22 1899
Cliff House seals peppered with bullets
The San Francisco Call - Sept 12, 1903
The Los Angeles Times - Jun 12 1904
"Foo Foo birds" visit
(Further reference
here)
 The San Francisco Examiner - Dec 11 1905 |
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The San Francisco Examiner - Nov 26 1906
Strange story of seals fighting with gulls
The Evening Mail - Aug 13 1907
Seal Rocks, taken by John Freeman, 4//14/2014
"Taken from the north end of the bath ruins, on the flat area that was the
terminal side of the old Sky Train. The usual angle to photograph Seal
Rocks doesn't
show the hole, but from the far side of Sutro Baths it shows up."
Seal Rocks at very low tide, taken Jan 3, 2018
Image courtesy of Don Holmes