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Photographer: William Henry Jackson
Caption: Looking West Along California Street - Charles and William Crocker Mansions
Additional Description: This undated photo, courtesy of the Bancroft Library, shows both Crocker Mansions, with the more (in)famous mansion owned by Charles Crocker in the foreground, and the mansion owned by his son, William, set further back. The famed "spite fence", put up by Charles Crocker, is visible in the background on the right. Crocker had the fence erected in 1877 to enclose on 3 sides the property of Nicholas Yung, who had refused to sell his property to Crocker, and the fence stood until 1904. The spite fence and the mansion itself, were seen by many as the manifestations of excessive wealth and ego.
Submitted: March 5, 2013, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p235630
File Size: 0.164 Megabytes

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