1878San Francisco
The City of San Francisco, from the bay looking south-west
Charles R. Parsons, sketched and drawn; Currier & Ives, New York.
Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
1878·San Francisco
The City of San Francisco, from the bay looking south-west
Charles R. Parsons, sketched and drawn; Currier & Ives, New York.
Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
What this plate shows
San Francisco drawn from over the bay: wharves, shipping, the grid climbing the hills, Golden Gate to the right distance, ocean beyond. A Currier bird’s-eye of 1878 — inside 1870 ± 10. Not the 1857 Coast Survey chart, and not a photograph.
- Image type
- Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
- Source
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs, ppmsca.08933.
- License
- Public domain.
Chronologies
An 1878 bird’s-eye lithograph of the city from the bay, then George Lawrence’s kite photograph of the ruins six weeks after 18 April 1906. The rebuilt city as a later camera record is not here yet.
San Francisco, 1906