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View from Telegraph Hill circa 1869

View southwest over North Beach. Union Street at left, Washington Square and flagpole at center. Major grading and landscaping of Washington Square was completed in April, 1869. Omnibus Railroad horsecar at northwest corner of Square on Powell St. Same image as wnp37.00707-R. (Panorama of San Francisco from Telegraph Hill (No. 19) 1356)[F810 NB-014] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [NB-14 Washington Square 1867]
Carleton Watkins (Martin Behrman Negative Collection / Courtesy of the Golden Gate NRA, Park Archives)

View from Telegraph Hill View from Telegraph Hill

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