Print, Photographic

Powder Magazine Exterior

Powder Magazine Exterior

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1993.100.0105

Description

B/W photograph of Powder Magazine 10 with a label: "Built of sandstone hewn from the surrounding hills the powder magazine is one of California's finest example of the stone-cutter's art. Mostly craftsmen from Ireland and USA were hired by the arsenal especially for the construction of this and other sandstone buildings which became the arsenal's first permenant structures. The walls are four-foot thick solid stone." Originally framed in brown wood under glass.

Collection

Benicia Arsenal Collection

Made/Created

Artist

William Brooks Dublin, M.D.