Cliff House Project
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Fritzi Scheff visits Cliff House
Nov/Dec 1901

 

Fritzi Scheff was an American actress and singer.
 

 


Fritzi Scheff visiting Golden Gate Park, along with Ernestine Schumann-Heink

 


Fritzi Scheff visiting Golden Gate Park

 


UL: Cliff House
UR: Cliff House
LL: Seal Rocks
LR: Sutro Heights, Conservatory in background
 

 

 

 

The following pages were not purchased, but preserved through ebay images

 


Fritzi Scheff, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Adolf Von Hübbenet
Golden Gate Park

 


UL: San Francisco
UR: Sutro Heights
LL: Grand Opera House
LR: Fort Baker in distance




Grand Opera House

 


UR: Sutro Heights
LR: Cliff House

 

 

Original album description from German auction website

"With approx. 175 square meters. Various photographs Formats, approx. 1900 to 1920. Qu.-Fol. (22x30cm). - Lwd. d. Currently (slightly scuffed and bumped). - Mostly pictures of cities in the USA and Mexico, including numerous photos of San Francisco before the earthquake of 1906 as well as of New York City and Los Angeles, as well as numerous photos of the city and scenes from life in Mexico, as well as a few photos from Cuba and from Liverpool, all HS. titled. Some photos show named people, such as the Austrian-American opera singers and actresses Fritzi Scheff and Ernestine Schumann-Heink, among others in front of the Second Cliff House (1896-1907) in San Francisco."

 



Fritzi Scheff appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show, 1948
 

For more information on Fritzi Scheff:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzi_Scheff