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| 1. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) View of a portion of the City and Bay, from Taylor street - in the distance the U.S. Hospital. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print 9.0 x 12.1 cm (oval) George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 2. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) Telegraph Hill taken from corner Stockton and Sacraments streets. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 16.0 x 20.5 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 3. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) Monumental Engine house, on the Plaza. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 20.7 x 15.5 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 4. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) Merchants' Exchange, on Battery street. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.5 x 20.7 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 5. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) Former Post Office, the rally of the "Law and Order" Party. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 16.4 x 20.6 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 6. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) View of the City from Stockton street, containing the portions between Washington and Sacramento streets. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 16.3 x 20.5 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 7. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) The Cathedral, (St. Mary's Church.) [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.9 x 20.3 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 8. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) City Hall [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.6 x 20.9 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 9. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) Fort Vigilance [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.2 x 20.6 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer The date of this photograph is likely to be 1856 and it involves a signficant incident in the early history of San Francisco.in the book "California: 1849-1913, or The Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four Years' Residence in that State" by Lell Hawley Woolley (Oakland, Cal, 1913) it gives the following account of the civil unrest and the actions of the Vigilance Committee of 1856: FORT GUNNYBAGS Our headquarters and committee rooms were at the wholesale liquor house of Truett & Jones, No. 41 Sacramento street, about a block from the water front, and embraced the block bounded by Sacramento, California, Front and Davis streets, and covered by brick buildings two stories high. The name "Fort Gunnybags" was ascribed to it on account of the gunnybags filled with sand which we piled up in a wall some six feet through and about ten feet high. This barricade was about twenty feet from the building. Guards were stationed at the passage-ways through it as well as at the stairs and doors to the buildings. On the roof was the bell (a huge 700 pounder) the taps of which brought us to arms at once. The use of this bell was tendered to the Committee by the members of the Monumental Fire Engine Company No. 6, stationed on the west side of Brenham Place, opposite the "Plaza." Our small field pieces and arms were kept on the ground floor, and the cells, executive chamber and other departments were on the second floor. On March 21, 1903, the California Historic Landmarks League placed a bronze tablet on the face of the building at 215 Sacramento street that had formerly been the headquarters of the Vigilance Committee of 1856, inscribed as follows: "Fort Gunnybags was situated on this spot, headquarters of the Vigilance Committee in the year 1856." (Source: http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/woolley.html, Dec 19, 2007) [Addictional information kindly contributed by Dave Tooley, Dec 19, 2007] Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 10. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) View down Sacramento street. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 16.0 x 20.4 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 11. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) The Custom House. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 16.2 x 20.4 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 12. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) View of the westside of Montgomery street, from Washington to Pacific. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.9 x 20.3 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 13. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) Knickerbocker Engine house No. 5 / St. Francis' Hook and Ladder No. 1. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 18.6 x 9.1 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 14. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) View over the City, containing the portions between California and Bush streets. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.9 x 20.3 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 15. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) View over Happy Valley. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.9 x 20.3 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 16. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) Montgomery Block, Montgomery street. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.2 x 20.3 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 17. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) View down Stockton street. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.3 x 20.3 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 18. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) North side of Montgomery street, from California to Sacramento. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 16.0 x 20.4 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 19. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) View of North Beach, from Telegraph Hill. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.9 x 20.2 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 20. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) Kearny street. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 16.1 x 20.3 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 21. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) East side of Montgomery street. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 16.0 x 20.1 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 22. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) View over the City from Harrison street. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.9 x 20.8 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 23. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) View from Rincon Point. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 16.0 x 20.4 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 24. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) South Park. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 16.0 x 20.3 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 25. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) View from Russian Hill, from Telegraph Hill. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.9 x 20.3 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 26. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) View over the Plaza. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 16.0 x 20.3 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 27. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) Alcatras (sic) Island. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.2 x 20.0 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco The dome of the old Merchants' Exchange can be seen in the distance. Thanks to Paul Puente for correcting this record. Editorial note (16 November 2010): On the George Eastrman House database this is incorrectly titled as "Alcatras (sic) Island". GEH NEG: 7320, 86:0057:0028 |
| 28. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) Battery street. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.2 x 20.0 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 29. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) California street. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.5 x 20.4 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 30. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) View from Kearny street - in the foreground the Orphans' Asylum. [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.2 x 20.1 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 31. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) Mission of "Los Dolores". [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.2 x 20.1 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco |
| 32. |  | George Robinson Fardon 1855 (ca) Unidentified view [San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco] Salt paper print, albumenized 15.2 x 20.1 cm George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer Publisher: Herre & Bauer, San Francisco This view was not listed on the original index. Fire and Marine Insurance Agency building |