Cliff House Project
A Program of Western Neighborhoods Project

 

Photographic Timeline

Over it's existence the cliff house changed is subtle ways....the facade changed, signs came and went, and so on.  The goal of the below photographic timeline is to sort these changes chronologically as a tool for dating the undated photos...

 

1870  
Date appears to be on the negative
1887  
Date appears to be on the negative
1893  
(since this photo was purchased the date likely represents the visit date, serving at least as an upper bound)
1894  
ebay image
(date penciled is not verified)
 
1895 10-26-1895

 

1897 7-11-1897
1899 "1899 trip"
1901 4-14-1901
  8-11-1901

 

1902 11-1902   
1903 9-1-1903
  1903
1904 3-23-1904

 

  7-9-1904
(reverse)
  10-09-1904

(reverse)
  12-18-1904
1905 6-29-1905
  10-8-1905

 

  11-15-1905
1906 1-25-1906
  10-28-1906
1907 7-10-1907
  Sept 4 to 7
  Likely near to fire
(see reverse)
  9-7-1907