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Albumen photograph of a drawing of the proposed Ferry Building in San Francisco. 22x50.5 cm. (8¾x20"), on original mount, in period wood frame with new archival mat.

Inscribed in ink on mount at lower left, "With compliments of A. Page Brown 1893." Photograph of Brown's fine rendering of his plan for the Ferry Building at to foot of Market Street, San Francisco, with street cards, horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians, so realistically executed that it looks almost like a photograph from life. Brown drew up the plans for the large, steel-framed structure following the passage of a bond issue to build a new Ferry Building in 1892. The final building, finished in 1898 two years after Brown's death, was slightly scaled down due to construction costs, the two large entrances at either end being canceled.