Sacramento Street, West from Montgomery St., San Francisco – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Sacramento Street, West from Montgomery St., San Francisco, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d5/d5e2b0c803ab-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
A window into the past: Sacramento Street, West from Montgomery St., 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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Sacramento Street, West from Montgomery St., San Francisco
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Sacramento Street, looking west from Montgomery Street, captures a busy stretch of downtown San Francisco in the mid-1860s. The Library holds only one half of a stereograph pair, issued as number 116 in the *Gems of California Scenery* series, so the print was meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. Albumen prints like this were popular in the 1860s, when parlor viewers brought city scenes and landscapes into American homes. The city had been rebuilt after the fires of 1851 and 1856, and streets like this one document that recovery. The 1866 date comes from an old caption card and has not been verified.
| 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. 116. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco--General Views. This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,412 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115508 |
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