Sujet

Blay-Place, San Francisco, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Blay-Place, San Francisco, 1850. Engraving from a Daguerreotype, showing '...Blay-place, with its shops and stores...But two years since...San Francisco was a hamlet of rude cabins: to-day it is a large town, a camp, or rather a caravanserai, of from 50,000 to 100,000 souls...M. Patrick Dillon, ex-Consul of France at the Sandwich Islands, and now Consul at San Francisco, estimates at 2000 per day the number of emigrants who arrive by sea at California; and there is a continued movement towards the [gold] mines from all sides, landward...The streets of San Francisco, parallel with the Bay, are very wide, straight, and level; but some of the streets are so steep as to render the passage of carriages impossible. The Californian sewer has to be made; the streets are just as if formed by chance, the shovel and broom are rarely used, and all kinds of filth is left to accumulate in the streets'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A36_169

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

51,8Mo (3,6Mo) / 42,0cm x 30,9cm / 4960 x 3651 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation city California building buildings wood timber house houses shopping town shop shops country San Francisco British cityscape wooden location Victorian century horse drawn Britain newspapers press B&W street scene engraved engraving road Transport United States of America 19th century black & white black and white townscape B W gold rush nineteenth century American America USA The Print Collector horse and cart horse-drawn vehicle Illustrated London News TGN ILN street newspaper landscape united states horsedrawn Unknown 19th-century Blay Place