Hess, Frederick:

$3,750 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

SAN FRANCISCO - CALIFORNIA [caption title]. A handsome engraved view of San Francisco in 1874 from Nob Hill towards Russian Hill in the North (left) and Rincon Point to the Southeast (right), showing a growing city a quarter century after the beginning of the Gold Rush. In the foreground are couples in period dress walking along a hedge among trees on Nob Hill and farm laborers in a field below, with horses and carriages on the city streets. The central view of the city is surrounded by twenty-two engraved vignettes of San Francisco buildings that include the Nevada block; Calvary Church; buildings on Sansome Street; the Palace Hotel; City Hall; the Grand Hotel; the London & SFR Bank; St. Mary's Cathedral; Cliff House; Lick House; the White House; the Occidental Hotel; buildings at the corner of Geary and Kearny Streets; the corner of First and Market Streets; a sweeping view of California Street; the P.M.S.S. Co's Wharf – showing travellers embarking for China and Japan; a broad view of Montgomery Street; a glimpse of the Mercantile Library on Bush Street; the elegant buildings on California Street at the corner of Sansome; a scene along the Oriental block; Murphy, Grant & Co's building on Sansome Street; and the Russ House on Montgomery Street. Published by Frederick Hess (ca. 1837-1913), a young German immigrant to San Francisco who began as a floor sweeper at the German language daily California Demokrat in 1849, eventually purchasing the newspaper in 1856 and creating tw

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