This is a very rare, antique vintage cabinet photograph of two drivers in a horse-drawn cart, likely making deliveries, in San Francisco, CA taken Jan 15, 1909 (as stated on back of cabinet board). Photograph is mounted on original cabinet board. Board is 9″ x 7″ and photograph is 7″ x 5″ in size. Board is in excellent condition with original stamp on back from SEAL ROCK PHOTOGRAPH, CO. 1410 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA Photograph is in excellent condition, very attractive with excellent contrast. Very rare and beautiful view of San Francisco! , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. And the only consolidated city-county. San Francisco encompasses a land area of about 46.9 square miles 121 km. On the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula. Which makes it the smallest county in the state. It has a density of about 18,451 people per square mile 7,124 people per km. , making it the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated. Major city in the United States after New York City. San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city. In California, after Los Angeles. And the 13th-most populous city. In the United States-with a Census-estimated 2015 population of 864,816. The city and its surrounding areas are known as the San Francisco Bay Area. And are a part of the larger OMB. Designated San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland. The fifth most populous. In the nation with an estimated population of 8.7 million. San Francisco Spanish for Saint Francis. Was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain. Established Presidio of San Francisco. At the Golden Gate. And Mission San Francisco de Asís. A few miles away. The California Gold Rush. Of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire. San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. In World War II. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the hippie. Growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. And other factors led to the Summer of Love. And the gay rights. Movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party. A popular tourist destination. San Francisco is known for its cool summers, fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of architecture. And landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge. The former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Pacific Gas and Electric Company. It has several nicknames, including “The City by the Bay”, “Fog City”, “San Fran”, and “Frisco”, as well as older ones like “The City that Knows How”, “Baghdad by the Bay”, “The Paris of the West”, or simply “The City”. As of 2015, San Francisco was ranked high on world livability rankings. Race, ethnicity, and languages. Education, households, and income. Culture and contemporary life. Entertainment and performing arts. Primary and secondary schools. Consulates and sister cities. See also: History of San Francisco. And Timeline of San Francisco. Mission San Francisco de Asís. The earliest archaeological evidence of human habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Group of the Ohlone. People resided in a few small villages when an overland Spanish exploration party. Led by Don Gaspar de Portolà. Arrived on November 2, 1769, the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay. Seven years later, on March 28, 1776, the Spanish established the Presidio of San Francisco. Followed by a mission. (Mission Dolores), established by the Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza. 1853 United States Coast Survey. From Spain in 1821, the area became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the mission system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson. Erected the first independent homestead. Near a boat anchorage around what is today Portsmouth Square. He laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena. Began to attract American settlers. Claimed California for the United States on July 7, 1846, during the Mexican-American War. And Captain John B. Arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, and Mexico officially ceded the territory. To the United States at the end of the war. Despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. Francis Samuel Marryat, Hilltop of San Francisco, California, Looking toward the Bay, 1849. Port of San Francisco. Brought a flood of treasure seekers (known as “forty-niners”, as in “1849”). With their sourdough bread. Prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia. Raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove. Had been filled to create new land. California was quickly granted statehood. Military built Fort Point. And a fort on Alcatraz Island. To secure the San Francisco Bay. Silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode. In 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast. Section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, and gambling. Entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush. Early winners were the banking industry, with the founding of Wells Fargo. In 1852 and the Bank of California. Development of the Port of San Francisco. And the establishment in 1869 of overland access to the eastern U. Rail system via the newly completed Pacific Railroad. The construction of which the city only reluctantly helped support. Helped make the Bay Area a center for trade. Catering to the needs and tastes of the growing population, Levi Strauss. Opened a dry goods business and Domingo Ghirardelli. Immigrant laborers made the city a polyglot culture, with Chinese Railroad Workers. Drawn to “Old Gold Mountain”, creating the city’s Chinatown. In 1870, Asians made up 8% of the population. The first cable cars. Carried San Franciscans up Clay Street. The city’s sea of Victorian houses. Began to take shape, and civic leaders campaigned for a spacious public park, resulting in plans for Golden Gate Park. San Franciscans built schools, churches, theaters, and all the hallmarks of civic life. Developed into the most important American military installation on the Pacific coast. By 1890, San Francisco’s population approached 300,000, making it the eighth-largest city. In the United States at the time. Around 1901, San Francisco was a major city known for its flamboyant style, stately hotels, ostentatious mansions on Nob Hill. And a thriving arts scene. As buildings collapsed from the shaking, ruptured gas lines ignited fires that spread across the city and burned out of control for several days. With water mains out of service, the Presidio. Artillery Corps attempted to contain the inferno by dynamiting blocks of buildings to create firebreaks. More than three-quarters of the city lay in ruins, including almost all of the downtown core. Contemporary accounts reported that 498 people lost their lives, though modern estimates put the number in the several thousands. More than half of the city’s population of 400,000 was left homeless. Refugees settled temporarily in makeshift tent villages in Golden Gate Park, the Presidio, on the beaches, and elsewhere. Many fled permanently to the East Bay. Not in history has a modern imperial city been so completely destroyed. San Francisco is gone. After the 1906 earthquake. The Palace of Fine Arts. At the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. Rebuilding was rapid and performed on a grand scale. Rejecting calls to completely remake the street grid, San Franciscans opted for speed. S Bank of Italy. Later to become Bank of America. Provided loans for many of those whose livelihoods had been devastated. The influential San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association. Or SPUR was founded in 1910 to address the quality of housing after the earthquake. The earthquake hastened development of western neighborhoods that survived the fire, including Pacific Heights. Where many of the city’s wealthy rebuilt their homes. In turn, the destroyed mansions of Nob Hill became grand hotels. Rose again in splendid Beaux Arts. Style, and the city celebrated its rebirth at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. It was during this period San Francisco built some of its most important infrastructure. Civil Engineer Michael O’Shaughnessy. Was hired by San Francisco Mayor James Rolph. As chief engineer for the city in September 1912 to supervise the construction of the Twin Peaks Reservoir, the Stockton Street Tunnel. The Twin Peaks Tunnel. The San Francisco Municipal Railway. The Auxiliary Water Supply System. San Francisco’s streetcar system, of which the J, K, L, M, and N lines survive today, was pushed to completion by O’Shaughnessy between 1915 and 1927. It was the O’Shaughnessy Dam. And Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct. That would have the largest effect on San Francisco. An abundant water supply enabled San Francisco to develop into the city it has become today. Under construction in 1935, took forty months to complete. In ensuing years, the city solidified its standing as a financial capital; in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash. Not a single San Francisco-based bank failed. Indeed, it was at the height of the Great Depression. That San Francisco undertook two great civil engineering projects, simultaneously constructing the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. And the Golden Gate Bridge. Completing them in 1936 and 1937 respectively. It was in this period that the island of Alcatraz. A former military stockade, began its service as a federal maximum security prison, housing notorious inmates such as Al Capone. And Robert Franklin Stroud. The Birdman of Alcatraz. San Francisco later celebrated its regained grandeur with a World’s fair. The Golden Gate International Exposition. In 1939-40, creating Treasure Island. In the middle of the bay to house it. The USS San Francisco. Steams under the Golden Gate Bridge. In 1942, during World War II. During World War II, the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Became a hub of activity, and Fort Mason. The explosion of jobs drew many people, especially African Americans from the South. After the end of the war, many military personnel returning from service abroad and civilians who had originally come to work decided to stay. Creating the UN was drafted and signed in San Francisco in 1945 and, in 1951, the Treaty of San Francisco. Officially ended the war with Japan. Urban planning projects in the 1950s and 1960s involved widespread destruction and redevelopment of west-side neighborhoods and the construction of new freeways, of which only a series of short segments were built before being halted by citizen-led opposition. The onset of containerization. Made San Francisco’s small piers obsolete, and cargo activity moved to the larger Port of Oakland. The city began to lose industrial jobs and turned to tourism as the most important segment of its economy. The suburbs experienced rapid growth, and San Francisco underwent significant demographic change, as large segments of the white population left the city, supplanted by an increasing wave of immigration. From Asia and Latin America. From 1950 to 1980, the city lost over 10 percent of its population. Over this period, San Francisco became a magnet for America’s counterculture. Writers fueled the San Francisco Renaissance. And centered on the North Beach. Neighborhood in the 1950s. In the 1960s, reaching a peak with the 1967 Summer of Love. In 1974, the Zebra murders. Left at least 16 people dead. In the 1970s, the city became a center of the gay rights movement. With the emergence of The Castro. As an urban gay village. The election of Harvey Milk. To the Board of Supervisors. Along with that of Mayor George Moscone. Bank of America completed 555 California Street. In 1969 and the Transamerica Pyramid. Was completed in 1972. Igniting a wave of Manhattanization. That lasted until the late 1980s, a period of extensive high-rise development downtown. The 1980s also saw a dramatic increase in the number of homeless people in the city, an issue that remains today, despite many attempts to address it. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Caused destruction and loss of life throughout the Bay Area. In San Francisco, the quake severely damaged structures in the Marina. And South of Market. Districts and precipitated the demolition of the damaged Embarcadero Freeway. And much of the damaged Central Freeway. Allowing the city to reclaim The Embarcadero. As its historic downtown waterfront and revitalizing the Hayes Valley. The last 20 years have seen two booms driven by the internet industry. First was the dot-com boom. Of the late 1990s, startup companies. Invigorated the San Francisco economy. Large numbers of entrepreneurs and computer application developers moved into the city, followed by marketing, design, and sales professionals, changing the social landscape as once-poorer neighborhoods became increasingly gentrified. Demand for new housing and office space ignited a second wave of high-rise development, this time in the South of Market district. By 2000, the city’s population reached new highs, surpassing the previous record set in 1950. When the bubble burst in 2001, many of these companies folded and their employees were laid off. Yet high technology and entrepreneurship remain mainstays of the San Francisco economy. By the mid 2000s (decade), the social media boom. Had begun, with San Francisco becoming a popular location for tech offices and a popular place to live for people employed in Silicon Valley. Companies such as Apple. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Photographic Images\Photographs”. The seller is “rarevintage” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, Germany, Japan, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Australia.
- Type: Photograph
- Format: Cabinet Card
- Photo Type: Cabinet Photo
- Original/Reprint: Original Print
- Date of Creation: 1900-1909
- Subject: Animals