Post Office and Custom House, Battery Street, San Francisco – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Post Office and Custom House, Battery Street, San Francisco, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0e/0edcf7ca365c-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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A window into the past: Post Office and Custom House, Battery Street, San Francisco, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Post Office and Custom House, Battery Street, San Francisco
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The building on Battery Street was one of the federal offices that served San Francisco's busy port, where the post office and the customs house shared space in a city that had grown quickly after the 1849 gold rush. Stereographs like this one were sold in pairs, and the Library holds only the left-eye half of this view, which was issued in the *Gems of California Scenery* series around 1866. Buildings such as this one show how the young city was setting up the government institutions that handled its mail and its import trade. The image is a useful record of the street's architecture and daily commerce in the 1860s.
| 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. 138. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco--Public Bldgs. (Schools, Hospitals, etc). This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,445 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115780 |
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