Panoramic photograph of the San Francisco business district
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Description
- Title
- Panoramic photograph of the San Francisco business district
- Creator
- R. J. Waters & Company
- Published / Created
- 1906.
- Abstract
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Panoramic photograph of San Francisco created by R.J. Waters & Co. that depicts the city in the weeks preceding the earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906, probably taken from the roof of Shreve & Company at the intersection of Grant Street and Post Street and looking east toward the San Francisco Bay. The image shows a cityscape with many identified business, including D. Samuels Lace House, Dow Pumps, Newman & Levinson Dry Goods, the Poodle Dog Restaurant, Sierra Photo-Engraving, and Goldberg, Bowen & Company, which was a grocer located at the intersection of Sutter Street and Leavenworth Street. Nob Hill and Telegraph Hill are also visible in the images, as well as Treasure Island and the masts of sailing ships on the horizon
- Description
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R. J. Waters & Company was a San Francisco photographic firm headed by Reaper James Waters and known for its aerial photographs and panoramas of San Francisco and other places in the American West.
Title devised by cataloger.
Caption inscribed in negative, "No. 51. Business District Of San Francisco." - Provenance
- Purchased from the William Reese Company on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2009.
- Extent
- 1 photographic print : 164.5 x 25.4 cm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- WA Photos Folio 63
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Pictorial works
Cityscapes California San Francisco
Panoramic photographs
Panoramic photographs California San Francisco
Photographic prints - Material
- b&w ;
- Subject (Geographic)
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Subject (Name)
- R. J. Waters & Company.
- Subjects
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R. J. Waters & Company
San Francisco (Calif.) > Pictorial works
California > San Francisco
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- R. J. Waters & Company, Panoramic Photograph of the San Francisco Business District. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 8588237
- Object ID (OID)
- 17441630
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