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Miner's Foundry and the Shot Tower, First Street, San Francisco – Antique Photo Print

Miner's Foundry and the Shot Tower, First Street, San Francisco, [published 1866] — historic photograph
Miner's Foundry and the Shot Tower, First Street, 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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A window into the past: Miner's Foundry and the Shot Tower, First Street, San Francisco, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Miner's Foundry and the Shot Tower, First Street, San Francisco

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The tall shot tower beside the Miner's Foundry on First Street sets this view apart. Such towers made round lead shot by pouring molten metal from a great height so the drops cooled into spheres before landing in water below. This print is one half of a stereographic pair issued as number 372 in the Gems of California series, commercial views sold to a public eager for images of the growing city. It captures an industrial corner of San Francisco in the mid-1860s, when foundries served mining and shipping.

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. 372. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco--General Views. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,419 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116509

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