[Portsmouth Square, San Francisco, California] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Portsmouth Square, San Francisco, California], [before June 22, 1851]. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/00/00fdf12dc56e-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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Portsmouth Square, San Francisco, California]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Portsmouth Square, San Francisco, California]
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Portsmouth Square, the central open space of early San Francisco, appears in this half-plate daguerreotype made before June 22, 1851. Legible signs on the storefronts, including California Restaurant, Book and Job Printing, and Alta California, the name of a local newspaper, point to the commercial life that grew around the plaza. The plate records a town still being built up in the years after the 1849 gold rush, when people arrived far faster than buildings could rise to house them.
| Created / published | [before June 22, 1851]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : half-plate daguerreotype. |
| Genre | Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.Cityscape photographs 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Case: delicate roses, variant. Signs in image include: California Restaurant, Book and Job Printing, Louisiana, Sociedad, Drugs & Medicines Wholesale & Retail, Henry Johnson & Co, Alta California, Bella & Union, A. Holmes. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:042.2). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Papers of the David D. Porter family, 1799-1899 (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Streets--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,676 × 3,757 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220918 |
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