Turk St., from the corner of Market and Mason Sts., San Francisco, Cal. – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Turk St., from the corner of Market and Mason Sts., San Francisco, Cal.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Turk St., from the corner of Market and Mason Sts., San Francisco, Cal.
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Turk Street, photographed from the corner of Market and Mason streets, is one of the few views in this set that the catalog ties directly to earthquake damage. The April 1906 earthquake and the fires that followed destroyed much of San Francisco, and c1906 places this glass negative in the period when the city was documenting its streets and ruins. Market Street was the city's main diagonal boulevard, so a corner there would have seen heavy foot and streetcar traffic before the disaster. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued these views as photographic prints and postcards, was one of the largest commercial picture makers of the era.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | 3156" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019236. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Streets. Earthquakes.United States--California--San Francisco. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 791 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-62681 |
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