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Pine Street from Taylor, looking West, San Francisco – Vintage Photo Print

Pine Street from Taylor, looking West, San Francisco, [published 1866] — historic photograph
Pine Street from Taylor, looking West, 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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This rare historic photograph captures Pine Street from Taylor, looking West, San Francisco in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Pine Street from Taylor, looking West, San Francisco

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Pine Street from Taylor, looking west, shows a steep San Francisco block at a time when the city was still reshaping itself after the gold rush boom of the late 1840s and 1850s. The Library holds only one half of this stereographic pair, issued in the Gems of California Scenery series as number 228. Viewed through a stereoscope, the two nearly identical exposures fused into a single image with apparent depth, a popular parlor entertainment in the 1860s. The albumen print, made on paper coated with egg white and silver salts, gives the view its warm brown tone.

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. 228. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco--General Views. This record contains unverified data from old caption card, with subsequent revisions.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,404 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115518

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