Photograph taken from City Hall looking north to Market Street. Plaza Park with St. Joseph's Cathedral and the Post Office are on the right. The electric light tower in view. Plaza Park, the geographical center of San Jose, is now known as Plaza de Cesar Chavez. History San Jose in SVHO: "Looking north from City Hall Plaza, view of Market Street showing St. Joseph's Church and Post Office." Image identified from SJ Historic Storefronts website: http://sjhistoricstorefront.com/post-16/; City Hall Plaza at Market Street and Park Ave. Other image from History San Jose indicates that City Hall may actually be the the point of view for the photo. Electric light tower built in 1881 and collapsed in 1915 (source: http://www.historysanjose.org/visiting_hsj/buildings/history_park/light_tower.html). HSJ (SVHO) dates a similar image as circa 1881-1906. Looks to be some years before earthquake; June 1906 image shows more electric/telephone wires, more paved roads/less plaza space. Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPG format using Photoshop CS3.
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