San Francisco California Birdseye View Civil War Era 1864
by Peter Ogden
Title
San Francisco California Birdseye View Civil War Era 1864
Artist
Peter Ogden
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This is a restored copy of an aerial view of San Francisco by early American photographer of historic western landscape views, Carleton Watkins, 1829-1916. This albumen silver print from a glass negative was created in 1864 and printed circa 1876.
This bird's eye cityscape view over and across the nineteenth century Victorian, American Civil War period hills, streets and rooftops of San Francisco northeast to the San Francisco Bay includes a large island in the bay.
Carleton E. Watkins was a famous and prominent American photographer of the late 19th century. Watkins was born in New York and moved to California whereupon he soon became interested in photography. Watkins concentrated mostly on epic landscape photography, Yosemite Valley being a favorite subject.
In the 1860s to the 1880s San Francisco started to evolve into a large metropolis, beginning with huge growth in all sections, rapidly producing new neighborhoods such as the Haight Ashbury, Western Addition, Eureka Valley, the Mission District, ending in the creation of the Golden Gate Park in 1887. In 1864 Hugh H. Toland, a South Carolina physician who achieved great success and riches after relocating to San Francisco, established the Toland Medical College, which later evolved into the University of California, San Francisco.
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August 24th, 2021
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