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This lot showed up in the mail today - incredible vintage photographic prints featuring the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge including shots of the placement of a beam closing the final gap in the span. I was able to search out the photographer's biographical information from the single word Zan printed on one of the six photographic-postcards included in the group :

Alexander J. "Zan" Stark (1890 - 3/17/1967) He was born in Michigan moving to California in his early 20's. He first lived in San Francisco moving to Mill Valley in the mide 1920's Zan Stark was a postcard photographer from and had his studio at 324 Miller Avenue in Mill Valley in Marin Co., California. He worked from the 1920's into the early 1950's under the name Zan of Tamalpais. He photographed the California coast from Monterey Co., Big Sur, the Redwood Highway and most of Northern California and also up in to Oregon. He also photographed in San Francisco, Sonoma Co., Napa Co. Santa Cruz Co., Lake Tahoe, Donner Lake and over into Nevada and Utah. He moved to Sonoma around 1952 and died on March 17th, 1967 in a Sonoma resthome.
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