Cliff House Project
A Program of Western Neighborhoods Project

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July 1, 1909

Adolph Sutro's daughter, Dr. Emma Merritt, rebuilt the Cliff House to a more modest scale, a neo-classical design by the Reid Brothers, architects of the Fairmont Hotel.

 

General Beach View Newspaper

 


c. 1920 

 


From ebay seller: "The only info I have in the entire book was one postcard addressed to a man named Junk in Salem Oregon. Also at bottom of one of the photos of the engineer was the name Junk and the dates of album were 1899-1909. The man attended Stanford and Berkeley and went to work as an engineer at the Standard Mine in Quartzburg where he was the main engineer and did the drawings for all the buildings made on the site. It was a cobalt mine in Clark County."




 


Mystery Ramp Structure

What is this structure?  It could be a ramp for dumping construction debris, or a ramp for some sort of acrobatic high-wire act to
Seal Rocks, but it could also be a drainage pipe extending over the bluff.  Unless we can see it from a better vantage point it's hard to
say definitively.  It appears to have only existed for a short time (c1910) as it has been observed in only a few photographs...
 


glass slide		  
close-up

 


Courtesy of Frank Mitchell		  
close-up

 


ebay image, dated "Feb 1910" (rev)		  
close-up

 

 

 


 


Cliff House
A copy of this postcard appeared on ebay, postmarked Apr 13 1919.
 

 


Image courtesy of Dennis O'Rorke

 


Postmarked April 10, 1927
(reverse)

 


 






Photogravure from book "San Francisco"
Published and copyright by Cardinell-Vincent Co, 579 Market Street, San Francisco. The Albertype Co, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Courtesy photo collection of Jan Weijers, Holland

 

postcard, unused, Edward M Mitchell, Publisher, San Francisco

 

 

 

 

 


"Artopho Co, 97"

 


 


1915 (dated by previous owner)

 


Image courtesy of Dennis O'Rorke

 

 



 

 


 


"Alberta Claire, the girl from Wyoming"
WNPCHP WNP136.30

For more information on Alberta, visit The Long Riders' Guild

Click here for a 2/12/1911 SF Call article.
Click here for a 3/29/1911 SF Chronicle article.
Click here for a 6/29/1912 NYT article.

 


The Long Riders' Guild

 

 


Busy day at the beach
"MAC'S", "THIS IS WHITNEY BROS"

 

 

 

 

 


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