View from Spring Valley Reservoir - Market St. looking East, San Francisco – Antique Wall Art
![View from Spring Valley Reservoir - Market St. looking East, San Francisco, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/59/5945c0ed2bd5-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of View from Spring Valley Reservoir - Market St. looking East, San Francisco. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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View from Spring Valley Reservoir - Market St. looking East, San Francisco
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This stereograph shows a reservoir of the Spring Valley Water Company, with Market Street running off toward the east, a view that ties a busy city street to the private water system that served San Francisco in the 1860s. The company was founded to bring reliable water to a city that had grown quickly after the Gold Rush, and reservoirs like this one were central to that effort. The Library holds only one print from the pair, which was issued as part of the *Gems of California Scenery* series, so the second card of the stereo view is missing from the collection. The caption information comes from an old card and has not been fully verified, so details of the exact location should be read with that in mind.
| Created / published | [published 1866] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 214. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco--Gerneral Views. This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,391 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115517 |
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