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DescriptionIn celebration of the 100th contributor to The Flickr Commons, where old and new photo technologies thrive! (LOC) See http---blog.flickr.net-en-2015-03-25-the-flickr-commons-welcomes-our-100th-institution- (16310211553).jpg |
Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer. Camera Obscura, located near the Cliff House restaurants just north of Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California 2012. 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: The Camera Obscura a device which projects an image of the surroundings onto a surface using only existing exterior light sources. This camera obscura was installed at the site in 1946 and has been in continuous operation since then. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Subjects: United States--California--San Francisco. Camera obscura. Mimetic buildings. Cliff House. Golden Gate. Sutro Baths. America. Format: Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print More information about the Highsmith Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.highsm Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.20822 Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 20822 |
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JPEG file comment | The Camera Obscura in San Francisco is a large-scale camera obscura and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located near the Cliff House restaurant perched on the headlands on the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach on the western side of San Francisco, California. The Camera and restaurant are currently owned by the National Park Service as part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Cameras obscura, devices which project an image of the surroundings onto a surface using only existing exterior light sources, usually sunlight, have a long history in San Francisco. The first recorded reference to one in the city is from the 1860s in an attraction called Woodward's Gardens. A previous incarnation of the Cliff House was noted to have had a camera obscura on its fourth floor in 1896. This camera obscura was destroyed when the restaurant burned down in 1907. When the fourth Cliff House opened in 1937, the owner was approached by businessman Floyd Jennings with the idea of adding a camera obscura to the cliffs behind the restaurant. It was installed on the site in 1946 and has been in continuous operation since then. |
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