Sansome Street, San Francisco, 1850 – Vintage Photo Print
![Sansome Street, San Francisco, 1850, [between 1890 and 1940] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/49/49ca69e42f07-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.)
Description
A window into the past: Sansome Street, San Francisco, 1850, preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Sansome Street, San Francisco, 1850
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Sansome Street was one of the streets near the San Francisco waterfront, and this view shows it as it looked in 1850, during the first years of the gold rush. The picture is a color halftone reproduction, made between 1890 and 1940, of a watercolor by Frank Marryat, an English artist who sketched the rough, fast-growing town. Because the original was painted in the middle of the rush, when buildings went up almost overnight, it preserves a city changing from month to month. The printed version also shows how halftone reproduction turned a painted original into a mass-produced color image.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1940] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone, color. |
| Genre | Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1890-1940. |
| Notes | From original water-color done in 1850 by F. Marryat, an English artist. |
| Subjects | Streets--California--San Francisco--1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,453 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219332 |
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