Looking down California St., from Nob Hill, Ferry Building and bay in distance, San Francisco – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 Looking down California St., from Nob Hill, Ferry Building and bay in distance, San Francisco in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Looking down California St., from Nob Hill, Ferry Building and bay in distance, San Francisco
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Looking east down California Street from the crest of Nob Hill, this stereograph carries the eye past the cable car tracks toward the Ferry Building and the bay beyond. The card dates to about 1907, roughly a year after the earthquake and fire of 1906 leveled much of the city, so rebuilding downtown would have been well underway when it was taken. H.C. White Co., a firm that produced stereo views for home parlor viewers, issued it as number 723 in its series. Cards like this were meant for a hand viewer, which gave the street a depth a flat print could not offer.
| Created / published | c1907. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Title from item. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 723. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ph. Ind. |
| Subjects | Streets--California--San Francisco--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 778 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149569 |
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