San Francisco California Street Railroad Company Stock Certificate 1885 Acrylic Print

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This is a restored copy of an 1885 California Street San Francisco Cable Railroad Company stock certificate featuring a late nineteenth century antique Victorian era San Francisco, California detailed graphic of an early antique San Francisco trolley street car and its operator or motorman.
The California Street Cable Railroad aka Cal Cable, was a long operating cable car company in San Francisco, California. It was launched by Leland Stanford. CSCR's first line cable street car transit service started on California Street in 1878 and is the senior cable car line that continues to operate on an hourly basis daily.
This service remained privately owned until 1951, continuing longer than all other profit making streetcar and cable car services in San Francisco. The municipality bought and reopened the street car routes in 1952. Today's San Francisco street car trolley system is a combination of the California Street line, and the Hyde Street portion of Cal Cable's O'Farrell, Jones...

I have been a visual artist since the 1960s. I'm originally from Orange County, New York, located in the Metro New York City region where I was raised on the working dairy farm [Ogden Farm] which my family founded in 1832. As a young man I spent many long hours working in gardens, crop fields, pastures and in barns with livestock. I grew up surrounded by antiques. I graduated from Bucknell University where I majored in art which included a semester in Florence studying Italian Renaissance art. After Bucknell I studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. I have lived throughout the U.S. [including three years in Sante Fe, New Mexico], in the Caribbean and in Mexico and Central America. I now reside in the 19th century...