Sutro Baths (San Francisco)

 

Unidentified

 

1896  

color lithograph billboard on 4 panels. 

72 1/2 x 78" image 

unsigned 

not editioned 

 

 

cream wove cartridge paper 

proof before letters 

Adolphe Sutro 

JHAE101 

SOLD

A rare billboard ad for Sutro Baths which had 6 pools, 517 changing rooms and had a capacity for 7,400 bathers. Text was added after the billboard was posted, each of the 4 sheets had to be carefully mounted. The baths burned in 1966.