Cable Car on Street in San Francisco, California, 1900

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Artifact Overview

For nearly thirty years, 1895 to 1924, the Detroit Publishing Company was one of the major image publishers in the world. The company had a wide-ranging stock of original photographs, including this image of a cable car climbing a hill in a residential San Francisco, California, neighborhood. A few pedestrians confront the slope on foot.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1900

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

P.O.4219

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in