"California Street Hill and Fairmont Hotel," circa 1905
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Streetcars blur past buildings in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco in this Detroit Publishing Company photograph. Atop the hill is the unfinished Fairmont Hotel. Most of the buildings seen here would be destroyed or severely damaged in April 1906 by the city's famous earthquake and the fires that followed.
Streetcars blur past buildings in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco in this Detroit Publishing Company photograph. Atop the hill is the unfinished Fairmont Hotel. Most of the buildings seen here would be destroyed or severely damaged in April 1906 by the city's famous earthquake and the fires that followed.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1905-1906
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.DPC.030888
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 7.563 in
Width: 6.813 in
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