This view of Market Street looking southeast from San Fernando Street shows the twin tanks of the first public water service erected in November of 1866. The surrounding buildings were part of Chinatown, which stretched north to San Fernando and just east of this photograph.
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image/jpeg2000 Scanned with Epson Expression 10000 XL as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed 8-bit, JPEG format. Auto Level image adjustment applied using Photoshop CS2.
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