McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 213

Title: McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 213
Description: Caption: "Old Spanish Fort -- Petaluma," c. 1920. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo began construction on the Petaluma Adobe in 1836, as a ranch house and defensive structure. It is now the centerpiece of Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park, having been reconstructed after deterioration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It is the largest existing, privately-built adobe in the state.
Contributor: Audrey Fullerton-Samora of Sacramento, great niece of William and Grace McCarthy, donated the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection to the California State Archives in 1996.
Coverage: Petaluma, California
Date: 1920
Format: JPEG, scanned at 400 DPI, 24-bit color
Identifier: 96-07-08-alb04-213
Language: English
Publisher: California State Archives, a division of the California Secretary of State's Office
Source: Image of a photograph within the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08)
Subject: Petaluma Adobe
Type: Still Image