San Francisco [panorama from Russian Hill] No. 4 [View north-northwest, looking out the Gate at left, with Alcatraz and Angel Islands in right background.]
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Description
Uncropped print from the same negative used to produce Watkins' stereograph no. 765, copyrighted in 1867. This black-and-white photograph shows a high-angle, wide-area view of a coastline and bay. In the foreground, a steep, grassy hillside descends toward the water, dotted with several white, multi-story Victorian-style houses with dark roofs and prominent chimneys. A dark, unpaved road or path cuts horizontally across the slope. The middle ground is dominated by a large, calm body of water where a steamship, trailing a long horizontal plume of dark smoke, moves toward the left. A smaller sailboat is visible further to the right. In the background, the silhouettes of large, hilly islands and distant mountain ranges rise from the water under a hazy sky. The overall lighting is bright but diffused, creating soft shadows on the buildings and a misty appearance in the distance. The photograph is mounted on a light-colored card with a dark rectangular border framing the print. Handwritten text in the bottom right corner of the mount reads "No. 4," and a small "40" is written in the upper right corner. Image description generated by AI (Gemini 3.0 Fast) and reviewed, February 2026 .
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