Capt Jack Williams

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Capt Jack Williams Spends a Week on Seal Rock
October 1889

c.1880s Cliff House Copy Film Negative (WNPCHP WNP136.39)
Interesting early view off the historic Cliff House with daredevil acrobat "Jack Williams" (aka: The Human Fly). He is pictured on top of Seal Rocks
after walking on a tightrope located between the rocks and the Cliff House terrace level. San Francisco, California.
(The above identification was supplied by the seller and is not verified)