April 17, 2024
San Francisco: BELT LINE ROUNDHOUSE, PIER 29/31 CONSTRUCTION 1919 Glass Negative
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Original Glass NegativeBelt Line Roundhouse (completed 1918)Pier 29 & Pier 31 - Late ConstructionSan FranciscoPhotographer: Not IdentifiedVintage dry glass plate negative, April 1919; in good condition and well detailed as shown; some light fading around the edges; note deterioration in the sky area; beyond dusting, I've not cleaned the negative. Glass has no chips or cracks. The overall positive and negative scans in this listing are at a low resolution; the details are shown from a higher resolution look at the image. There is no print with this negative.Source: In the 1950's, a northern California collector purchased several large glass plate and film negative libraries of professional photographers' work, in search of negatives containing his limited subjects of interest. The remainder of these c.1900-1925 (and some later) acquisitions were boxed and set aside. After 40+ years in storage, the late collector's family has decided to part with some of the archive.Content primarily includes San Francisco street scenes, East Bay development, local industry, railroads, automobiles, aviation, ships, fires and disasters, sports and recreation. When new, many of these images were published as postcards or used as stock images, often for promotional purposes.The negative will be carefully packed and promptly sent worldwide to the winning
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