Broadway Wharf, San Francisco – Antique Print
![Broadway Wharf, San Francisco, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e8/e8bf83c9e91d-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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Broadway Wharf, San Francisco. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Broadway Wharf, San Francisco
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Broadway Wharf was one of the working piers on San Francisco's bayfront, and this view survives only as one half of a stereograph card. Issued as number 301 in the Gems of California Scenery series, it shows the waterfront in the years after the Gold Rush had turned a small settlement into a major Pacific port. Viewed through a stereoscope, the paired images fused into a single three-dimensional scene, making such cards a popular parlor entertainment in the 1860s.
| 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. 301. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco--Waterfront. This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,442 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115710 |
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