Occidental Hotel, Montgomery Street, from the Russ House, San Francisco – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Occidental Hotel, Montgomery Street, from the Russ House, San Francisco, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/11/116b9e209958-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: Occidental Hotel, Montgomery Street, from the Russ House, San Francisco, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Occidental Hotel, Montgomery Street, from the Russ House, San Francisco
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From the Russ House, this view turns toward the Occidental Hotel on Montgomery Street, one of the city's well-known hotels in its mid-1860s commercial core. Montgomery Street was the financial center of San Francisco during and after the Gold Rush, when the city grew quickly and its hotels served merchants, miners, and travelers arriving by ship. The Library holds only one half of this stereographic pair, issued as number 140 in a series of California scenery views. Viewed through a stereoscope with its companion image, it would have produced a three-dimensional effect.
| Created / published | [published 1866] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 140. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Commercial Buildings (Businesses, Hotels, etc.). This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,526 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112145 |
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