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[View down Market Street, San Francisco, California] – Vintage Wall Art

[View down Market Street, San Francisco, California], c1935. — historic photograph
[View down Market Street, San Francisco, California], c1935.. 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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[View down Market Street, San Francisco, California] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[View down Market Street, San Francisco, California]

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Market Street, the diagonal artery that cuts across San Francisco from the Ferry Building toward the western neighborhoods, is the subject here, and this view looks straight down its length as it ran through the commercial heart of the city in the mid-1930s. Gabriel Moulin, a photographer who documented the Bay Area, made the picture, and its copyright registration with the U.S. Copyright Office reflects the period's habit of protecting commercial photographs. The street was then lined with department stores, theaters and office buildings, and the view shows the bustle of a downtown that was recovering from the Depression while the city prepared for its Bay Bridge and World's Fair era.

Created / publishedc1935.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreCityscape photographs 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1930-1940.
NotesJ16657 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Gabriel Moulin.
SubjectsCommercial streets--California--San Francisco--1930-1940. Market Street (San Francisco, Calif.)--1930-1940. San Francisco (Calif.)--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,273 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-184990

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