When was this photo of Mission Dolores *actually* taken?
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Congratulations on your first question, justCal!
The cropped version of the Mission Dolores photograph was published in George Robinson Fardon's famous 1856 album. I have the cheap Dover edition. As you found, a larger version also appears in the works of Carleton Watkins. Both men have been credited with this image, but both reprinted the work of another, unknown, photographer.
Its origins are discussed in the 1999 critical edition and catalogue raisonné of Fardon's album (pp. 24-26, 136). Based on the subsequent conversion of the priest's quarters into a saloon, and the fact that in 1854 Fardon preferred to copy it rather than make his own work, the photo's date is suggested as 1850 or 1851. It was reportedly taken by "an English tourist who stopped in San Francisco during his return trip from the Orient." The photochemical process he used is not known.
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