Surf near the Golden Gate, San Francisco – Vintage Wall Art
(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: Surf near the Golden Gate, San Francisco, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Surf near the Golden Gate, San Francisco
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The surf breaking near the Golden Gate sets this view apart from the usual downtown skylines on the San Francisco board, since the strait is where the Pacific pushes through a narrow opening into San Francisco Bay. Ocean swells funnel between the headlands here, and the currents can be strong, which made the entrance a long-watched hazard for sailing ships and later steamers. The Golden Gate itself took its name from the strait, a comparison to the Golden Horn in Constantinople that goes back to the 1840s. Shore scenes like this one show how close the open ocean sits to the city's edge.
| Original scan | 7,452 × 5,832 px · prints to 25 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 18206u |
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