Exterior view of San Francisco's first ferry building, September 1875

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Title Exterior view of San Francisco's first ferry building, September 1875

Description Photograph of an exterior view of San Francisco's first ferry building, September 1875. The building is a long rectangular structure with a tall clock tower sticking out of the middle. There are nine large openings in the front of the building for carriage and trolley entrance, and several horse-drawn trolleys are visible.; The caption at the bottom of the image reads: "This was San Francisco's first 'ferry building'. It was located on East Street (Embarcadero) between Market and Clay Streets and was built by the Central Pacific Railroad Company in connection with lips built by the California State Harbor Commissioners. Ferry boats from Oakland Long Wharf made first use of this 'commodious and convenient passenger station' on September 4, 1875, and at the same time the landing on Davis Street, between Broadway and Pacific Street wharves, was abandoned by the ferry boats. During 1877 this building was moved and rearranged to conform to three new slips built by the Harbor Commissioners, which station continued as San Francisco's terminal until the present Ferry Building was erected in 1896".

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1875-09

Subject buildings (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Ferries (lcsh), Ferry Building (subject), Horse railroads (lcsh), Oakland Ferry (subject), San Francisco County -- Architecture -- Ferry Building (file heading), Transportation (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), East Street between Market Street and Clay Street (roadways), San Francisco (city or populated place), San Francisco (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1875-09

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9047

Identifier 11432 (accession number), CHS-11432 (call number), CHS-11432 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8950 (legacy record id), chs-m9047 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9186 (legacy record id), 1-48- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8950

Unique identifier UC139161

Legacy Identifier CHS-11432.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.0 in × 12.5 in at 300dpi
45.7 cm × 31.8 cm at 300dpi

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Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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