Here’s another spot I’d like to rephotograph up at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. The photograph above was taken by William Henry Jackson between 1880 and 1910. It’s from the 1974 monograph of Jackson’s work that was edited by Beaumont Newhall and Diana E. Adkins (published by Morgan & Morgan). This is the second Cliff House, so it had to be taken after 1896.
Here’s another photo of the Cliff House, taken a few years earlier (around1890) by I.W. Taber (via The Getty):
I.W. Taber photograph of the Cliff House, circa 1890.
Taber’s photo shows the first Cliff House, which burned down in 1894 and was subsequently rebuilt as the Victorian monstrosity that we see in Jackson’s photograph. Since I seem to be going in reverse chronological order, here’s one last image, from 1868, taken by Carleton Watkins (via the LA County Museum of Art):
Carleton Watkins photograph of the Cliff House, 1868.