Mayor Phelan Dinner Party
May 20 1897
Image from the Marilyn Blaisdell collection, identified as an early Cliff House
interior photo by Dennis O'Rorke
Identified by Marilyn as "c1900 Cliff House dining room w/ Mayor James Phelan
group"
On further research this is likely a photograph of a dinner party Mayor Phelan
gave for
Harold Sewall,
per the below newspaper clippings.
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"The photograph shows the fourth floor Main Parlor, looking at the southwest corner tower. I think there is an upright piano and orchestra inside the turret. My guess on piano placement was not far off (per above rendering). The only structural difference I see is the archway into the turret area. That's not on the plans, but is of a similar type of change that occurred elsewhere on the plans." |
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- Newspaper Clippings -
The San Francisco Examiner - May 23 1897
San Francisco Chronicle - 23 May 1897
The San Francisco Call - May 23 1897
(Mistakenly gives the name as Arthur Sewall, rather than Harold Sewall)