PBA Galleries

Includes: Albumen photograph of the Cliff House Yuba City Brewery Beer Depot, with 10 men in front, two on horseback. 21x25 cm. c.1880. * Silver photograph of the Brewery, four men on the porch in front, one in a horse-drawn buggy, with a bicycle propped against a tree. 14x20 cm. c.1900. Together, 2 vintage photographs, on card mounts.

Great photographs of the brewery in Yuba City, with a large sign in the roof, a smaller one on the trunk of a nearby tree. Although we can find no direct connection between the Cliff House Brewery in Yuba City and California pioneer Sam Brannan, there must be one: Brannan built the first Cliff House in San Francisco; he founded Yuba City; and he became a brewer in his later years before developing a problem with alcohol. Pencil notes on verso of the larger photo, ink writing on verso of the smaller.