1910 Print Ellis Landing Shellmound Brooks Island Marsh California XGZ9 Political and "Man Carrying a Load

and "Man Carrying a Load of Books" (1906)

"Born Yesterday"

Corporal John Watts of Governors Island

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Crozier is known for inventing the Buffington Crozier Disappearing Gun Carriage

1910 Print Ellis Landing Shellmound Brooks Island Marsh California XGZ9 Political and "Man Carrying a LoadThis is an original 1910 halftone print of the Ellis Landing Shellmound at high tide with a view of Brooks Island at the right. The second image shows the sea wall of the Ellis Landing Shellmound as it appeared in 1906 prior to excavation. A shellmound or midden is a wasteland used by previous human settlements, which accumulated with domestic waste containing shells, animal bones, human excrement, vermin and other ecological and human waste products.