2-709-229 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bird's eye view from the tower of the Chronicle Building, San Francisco, USA, 1895. In the mid 19th century the city expanded rapidly due to the California Gold Rush, which brought a flood of treasure seekers (known as 'forty-niners', as in '1849'). From "Round the World in Pictures and Photographs: From London Bridge to Charing Cross via Yokohama and Chicago". [George Newnes Ltd, London, 1895]