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Opening day for the short lived operation of Alan Pegler's #4472, The Flying Scotsman along San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Seen running on Jefferson St., Pegler is in the engineers seat and riding the tender is Joseph Silva, manager of the State Belt RR. (1972)
From March 12th, 1849, to June 4th, 1849, and a Record of the Proceedings of the Ayuntamiento or Town Council of San Francisco, From August 5th, 1849, until May 3d, 1850. With an Appendix. Published by Towne & Bacon, Printers., San Francisco., 1860; The San Francisco Call Database Background by Jim W. Faulkinbury
San Francisco Earthquake: 18 April 1906 Arnold Genthe: San Francisco, California, United States [s 2] The Steerage: 1907 Alfred Stieglitz: Aboard the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II, possibly anchored at Plymouth, England, United Kingdom [32] Glass plate Landmark modernist photo depicting immigrants on the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II. [33] [s 1] [s 3]
Aerial photo of San Francisco showing Golden Gate Park. Golden Gate Park in San Francisco (contemporary aerial photo shown) is surveyed and mapped; The First National Gold Bank in San Francisco begins producing National Bank Notes redeemable in gold; San Francisco's population is 149,473, an increase by 163% from 1860's 56,802
The California State Telegraph Company was a business originally organized to provide telegraph service between San Francisco and Marysville, California.By the spring of 1861, the company had expanded its service area south to Los Angeles, north to Yreka, and east to Fort Churchill by absorbing the other telegraph companies in California (partly through enforcement of its right to the Morse ...
One of Lawrence's world-renowned photographs is of the ruins of San Francisco, California after the 1906 earthquake. It is a 160-degree panorama from a kite taken 2000 feet (600 m) in the air above the San Francisco Bay that showed the entire city on a single 17-by-48-inch contact print made from a single piece of film. Each print sold for $125 ...
A photo shared on the official Kentucky Derby page on the social media platform X showed the tip of Mystik Dan’s nose just barely past those of Sierra Leone and Forever Young in the closest ...
In 1857, he bought out Cameron to become the sole proprietor of his business, which was destroyed in another fire in 1860. However, he had been successful enough to be able to afford to rebuild it. [1]: 294 In 1863, Rulofson moved to San Francisco and joined Bradley's studio, [a] which soon became very well-respected. In addition to being ...