The Chronicle Building, San Francisco, California, circa 1905

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Artifact Overview

From 1895 to 1924, the Detroit Publishing Company was one of the world's major image publishers. It had a wide-ranging stock of original photographs, including this image of the San Francisco Chronicle headquarters building. The Chronicle was founded in 1865 and had become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast by 1880.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1900

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

P.DPC.011628

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 9.313 in
Width: 7 in

The Chronicle Building, San Francisco, California, circa 1905