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From: Stewart
Remote Name: 66.190.218.99
Date: 03/11/2008
Time: 06:42:16 PM
I don't like sports but I do like questions like that! Much will probably remain unknown; but, here are my observations. I would date the stein between 1892 and 1906. 1892 because the Stanford and California on the baskets surely do not refer to "Stanford,California" but rather the intense sports rivalry Stanford vs California (which is U.Cal at Berkeley) otherwise known as "the Big Game". This rivalry in all sports and the football game in particular has been going on since 1892. In 1895 there was an establishment with a sign "Louvre" at the corner of Eddy and Powell (in the heart of San Francisco). It may have been an art gallery exhibiting the picture. I have not found any reference to Newmans College yet, perhaps it was an art school there? I have not found any reference to Dewey the St Bernard despite the St Bernard fanciers keeping a nice on-line archive going back that far. Perhaps they don't have early west coast records. 1906 is a likely end date because the whole neighborhood was destroyed in the San Francisco fire of 1906. Also, that's the year ordinary baskets were replaced by hoops at Springfield, and I think those things are baskets!