Image / San Francisco Post Office at Pike Street and Clay Street, 1850
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- Title
- San Francisco Post Office at Pike Street and Clay Street, 1850
- Creator
- Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
- Date Created and/or Issued
- 1850
- Publication Information
- University of Southern California. Libraries
- Contributing Institution
-
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
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 a drawing of a crowd of many miners lined up in front of the San Francisco Post Office at the corner of Pike Street and Clay Street adjoining Portsmouth Square, 1850. Two buildings are visible, the "Garret House" is a two-story[?] wooden structure on the left and to the right is a shorter wooden structure with a prominent covered porch in front supported by four columns. One man is on horseback. One man is selling newspapers in the foreground. "The four or five clerks received $300 a month and Uncle Sam paid $7000 a year rent for the shack (The Garret House)"
- Type
- image
- Format
- 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
8 x 10 in.
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
- Identifier
- chs-m9707
USC-1-1-1-9846 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-937
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9707
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-937.jpg
- Subject
- Postal service--Buildings
Miners
San Francisco County--Architecture
Buildings
- Time Period
- 1850
- Place
- California
Pike Street & Clay Street
San Francisco
USA
- Source
- 1-48- [Microfiche number]
937 [Accession number]
CHS-937 [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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