Photograph

From Rincon Hill

San Francisco · Daguerreotypes likely before 22 April 1851

Original archival photograph

The surviving historical source image.

What the picture shows

The harbor, ships, a low city, and open hills. Gaps in the panorama are missing sections, not a crop made here.

Documented context

Early San Francisco with the ground still visible around it. This is a reproduction of the daguerreotypes, not the plates themselves.

Photographer: Not named on the Library of Congress record
Source: Library of Congress, panoramic photographs, pan.6a01850. The item is a later reproduction, dated about 1910, of daguerreotypes. The record dates those plates from the steamer C.M. Weber, then in port for repairs, and notes sections missing at the left.
License: Public domain.

SCARCE connections

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