Sunset study, San Francisco Bay – 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 Sunset study, San Francisco Bay. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Sunset study, San Francisco Bay
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Rather than a view of the city's streets or waterfront, this print is a study of light: a sunset over San Francisco Bay, recorded around 1884. Its mount bears the stamp of George Fiske, a photographer better known for his Yosemite Valley views, and the San Francisco agency Sanborn, Vail & Co., which sold photographs from its Market Street address. Fiske registered the image for copyright, so it was made for sale and circulation. Late nineteenth-century photographers often pictured sunsets and open water as subjects in their own right, which makes this print a useful record of how the bay was seen and marketed in that decade.
| Created / published | c1884 July 25. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Marine photographs 1880-1890.Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 17058 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item No. 734. Copyright by Geo. Fiske. Stamped on mount: Geo. Fiske, Photo., Yosemite Valley, Cal., San Francisco Agency, Sanborn, Vail & Co., 857 Market Street. |
| Subjects | Bays--California--1880-1890. Sunrises & sunsets--1880-1890. San Francisco Bay (Calif.)--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,000 × 4,023 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224358 |
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