Russian Hill from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco – Historic Print
![Russian Hill from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/00/00820d045ee8-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Russian Hill from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Russian Hill from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco
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From a vantage point on Telegraph Hill, this stereograph looks across the rooftops and slopes of Russian Hill, one of the steep rises that shaped the layout of early San Francisco. Telegraph Hill took its name from a semaphore signal station set up in 1849 to announce arriving ships, and by the mid-1860s the city was crowding onto its hillsides after the Gold Rush boom. The print is an albumen stereo half, issued in the *Gems of California Scenery* series, and the Library of Congress holds only one of the two images that made up the stereo pair. Stereographs like this were sold to parlor viewers who used them to see the city in three dimensions.
| Created / published | [published 1866] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 359. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco--General Views. This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,449 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115922 |
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