Aerial panorama of San Francisco waterfront and shipping – Historic Photograph Print
(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 image captures Aerial panorama of San Francisco waterfront and shipping in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Aerial panorama of San Francisco waterfront and shipping
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Unlike many balloon views of American cities taken from open fields or rooftops, this one looks down on the working edge of San Francisco, where piers, wharves, and moored ships crowd the bay. The waterfront was the city's commercial heart in the period when balloon photography was new, handling cargo, passengers, and ferries that linked the city to the East Bay and beyond. Photographers aloft had to contend with wind, unsteady platforms, and slow exposures, so these views are valued both for the way they map a dense port and for the rare vantage they offer on how the shoreline was laid out.
| Original scan | 11,709 × 4,716 px · prints to 39 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 07823u ruins of san francisco |
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