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Title
Exterior view of San Francisco's first Ferry Building, 1887
Date Created and/or Issued
1887
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 exterior view of San Francisco's first Ferry Building, 1887. A long one-story building with a clock tower on top is visible at center. Signs can be seen towards the roof reading, "San Jose. Sacramento. Los Angeles. Chicago. New York". Several street-cars, one reading, "103 Castro Street" are visible in front of the building. Multiple carriages can be seen in the foreground. Building first used in 1875, with carriages and wagons in front.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
20 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9051
USC-1-1-1-9190 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-43270
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9051
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-43270.jpg
Subject
Buildings
Ferries
Transportation
Carriages and carts
Wagons
Ferry Building
San Francisco County--Architecture--Ferry Building
Transportation features
Time Period
1887
Place
California
East Street between Market Street and Clay Street
San Francisco
USA
Source
43270 [Accession number]
CHS-43270 [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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