Examiner Building and Claus Spreckels Building, San Francisco in 1898 – Vintage Photo Print
(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 rare historic photograph captures Examiner Building and Claus Spreckels Building, San Francisco in 1898 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Examiner Building and Claus Spreckels Building, San Francisco in 1898
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Two commercial landmarks stand side by side in this view of San Francisco's downtown, the Examiner Building and the Claus Spreckels Building, as the title dates them to 1898. The Examiner was William Randolph Hearst's newspaper, and in the 1890s it helped make the city's Market Street corridor a center of publishing and business. The Spreckels building was named for the sugar magnate whose fortune had grown from West Coast refining. The print itself is a later record: its caption card credits George M. Rascoe of San Francisco, and the Library of Congress dates the copyright registration to about 1947, so the image shows the district as it was recorded then.
| Created / published | c1947 Dec. 15. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | J3761 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by George M. Rascoe, San Francisco. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: California--San Francisco (2); Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,252 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146517 |
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