The City of San Francisco – Vintage Print
![The City of San Francisco, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1877. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ef/ef01429c6521-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 rare antique lithograph captures The City of San Francisco in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The City of San Francisco
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Issued from Currier & Ives's New York shop in 1877, this lithograph presents San Francisco as a city that had grown quickly after the transcontinental railroad linked it to the East in 1869. The firm produced many city views for buyers who would never see the places themselves, so the picture works partly as a flattering portrait of a booming Pacific port. The date falls in a turbulent stretch for the city, when labor agitation and anti-Chinese sentiment ran strong in its streets. Viewers interested in the period can read the print for how the town was laid out across its hills and along the bay.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1877. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1232. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,073 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174235 |
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