City Hall and Plaza, San Francisco – Antique Print
![City Hall and Plaza, San Francisco, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/bf/bfcad75b4e31-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
This historic photograph of City Hall and Plaza, San Francisco brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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City Hall and Plaza, San Francisco
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This half of a stereograph shows City Hall and its plaza in San Francisco, a civic space in a city still shaping its institutions a decade and a half after the Gold Rush brought its rapid growth. The print is an albumen photograph from the 1860s, a process that gave these views their warm brown tones. It was issued as number 205 in the *Gems of California Scenery* series, and viewers would have seen the two slightly offset images through a stereoscope, which merged them into a single scene with depth. Many of the city's public buildings were lost in the 1906 earthquake and fire, so views like this one document a downtown that no longer exists in that form.
| Created / published | [published 1866] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 205. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco--Public Buildings (Schools, Hospitals, etc.) This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,434 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116135 |
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