Description
Golden Gate National Parks Association, Published 1998. Wraps, 76 pp.; 21 x 26 cm, oblong; no other printings listed; illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs.
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Purple pictorial paper covers have light bumping to edges and mild overall shelf wear. Binding tight, staple bound. Pages clean and unmarked. Photographic album of San Francisco's ocean edge, drawn from the Bancroft Library, the California Historical Society, the San Francisco History Center, the GGNRA park archives and private collections. Adolph Sutro's clifftop estate, the castle-like Cliff House, and the seven saltwater pools of Sutro Baths, where up to thirty thousand people crowded in to watch trick diving, walking-underwater contests, and a diving dog named Jack. Sutro shipped two hundred plaster statues from Belgium in 1884 to line the grounds. Designed to read as a family album, with printed corner mounts, deckled page borders and reproduced ephemera including a Cliff House fare card and Sutro Baths admission tickets. Text by Ariel Rubissow Okamoto, founding editor of ESTUARY magazine.