A view looking east down California Street in San Francisco, California. There are a few trolleys on the tracks farther down the hill, as well as horse-drawn carriages. The street is lined with telegraph/telephone or electricity lines, and several of the buildings farther down the hill have awnings and signs for businesses. One of forty-eight glass plate negatives originally housed together with a note by Latta reading "Frank Robinson Merced Area Misc. Unidentified." More than half of the images feature the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, or the California Midwinter International Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1894, hence the suggested date.
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