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Jewish Synagogue, Congregation Emanu-El, Sutter Street, San Francisco – Historic Photo Reproduction

Jewish Synagogue, Congregation Emanu-El, Sutter Street, San Francisco, [published 1866] — historic photograph
Jewish Synagogue, Congregation Emanu-El, Sutter Street, San Francisco, [published 1866]. 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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Jewish Synagogue, Congregation Emanu-El, Sutter Street, San Francisco

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Congregation Emanu-El's temple on Sutter Street is the subject of this stereograph view, one half of a pair issued in the *Gems of California Scenery* series as number 233. The congregation, founded in the early 1850s during the Gold Rush boom, was among the first Reform Jewish communities in the American West, and its house of worship stood as a visible sign of the city's growing Jewish population. Stereo views like this one were sold to middle-class households, so the picture offers a sense of how San Francisco presented itself to outside viewers in the 1860s. The Library's record gives the publication date as 1866, though it notes that the caption data is unverified.

Created / published[published 1866]
Medium1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen.
GenreStereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870.
SubjectsThe Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 233. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco--Churches and Synogogues. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,455 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115972

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