![Item #43641 [Photograph] State Capitol Building, Sacramento, California. Isaiah West Taber.](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43641.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591211713)
[Photograph] State Capitol Building, Sacramento, California.
[San Francisco]: Taber, ca. 1890. 9 x 7.5 inch image on x 10 x 8 inch card. White card mount. Very good, very faint fading, mainly to the sky. Item #43641
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.
Price: $125.00