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- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
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California From Sansome
San Francisco circa 1890s. "California Street from Sansome Street." With a horsecar passing by. Copy negative of a photo by I.W. Taber. View full size.
Parallel parking
How do you teach parallel parking to a horse?
Do you think
they called Old St. Mary's Cathedral (on the horizon) Old in 1890? It's amazing what survives and what doesn't over time.
[In 1891 it was replaced as the seat of the Archdiocese of San Francisco by the new St. Mary's cathedral at Van Ness and O'Farrell. -tterrace]
No Women
Were they all home attending to their wifely/womanly duties?
Circa 1890s more correct
On the far right there's a shop selling diaries for "189_". At one time it looks like it read "1893".
[Excellent observation. - Dave]
Educate us please
What is a "copy negative of a photo"? I'm having trouble making sense of that, but I'm sure there's a great, wise answer. I understand copying a photo but I'm wondering why there would be a reason to make a negative of that. Oh yeah, and great photo - one of the best I've ever seen here on Shorpy from this period!
[It's a contact negative made by laying a piece of film over either a print or a glass transparency. - Dave]
Four Rails
I've never seen "dual gauge" mass transit trackage before. And, Mixed Media, as well.
The horsecar is running on standard gauge track on the outside pair of rails (in each direction), while another set of rails (plus a "slot rail" centered between them) for the cable cars lies between them.
THANKYOU Shorpy for finding and posting this! I'm amazed such existed.
A good design
The basic design of post office mail boxes hasn't changed much. If it's not broken, don't fix it.
Amazing
I am sitting on this same block of California Street right now.
Electricity
Electricity at 1870'? In San Francisco? Well, I missed something :)
[For starters, the telephone and telegraph. - Dave]
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