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Market Street, toward the ferries, San Francisco – Vintage Photo Print

Market Street, toward the ferries, San Francisco, c1892. — historic photograph
Market Street, toward the ferries, San Francisco, c1892.. Historic photograph from the San Francisco collection.

(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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This historic photograph of Market Street, toward the ferries, San Francisco brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Market Street, toward the ferries, San Francisco

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Market Street ran straight down toward the Ferry Building, and this stereograph captures that long view as it appeared around 1892. Stereo cards like this one were made to be seen through a hand viewer, so the two slightly offset images fused into a single scene with depth, letting viewers feel they were standing on the street. Underwood & Underwood, the firm credited on the card, was one of the largest publishers of these views in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The record notes that its caption details are old and unverified, so the exact date and specifics are worth checking against other sources.

Created / publishedc1892.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,388 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126523

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