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Image / Illustration depicting San Francisco's Kearny Street from the Chronicle Building, ca.1890

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Title
Illustration depicting San Francisco's Kearny Street from the Chronicle Building, ca.1890
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1890
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of an illustration depicting San Francisco's Kearny Street from the Chronicle Building, ca.1890. The street is lined with an assortment of Victorian shops, most of which are three or four stories high. There are many pedestrians on the sidewalk in the foreground standing near ornate streetlamps. In the street on the right side of the image is a horse-drawn streetcar. In the foreground on the right is the façade of the Chronicle Building, which is dominated by a doorway flanked by two Romanesque marble columns. Legible signs include, from left, "Dentist", and "Chronicle".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m9699
USC-1-1-1-9838 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-10052
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9699
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-10052.jpg
Subject
San Francisco County--Streets
Streets
Buildings
Horse railroads
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1890
Place
California
Kearney Street
San Francisco
USA
Source
1-48- [Microfiche number]
10052 [Accession number]
CHS-10052 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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