2024-04-17 Guide to the Martin Behrman Panoramic Photograph of San Francisco, California as Viewed from Rincon Hill in 1851, 1910 SPEC.RARE.MMS.0387 Finding aid prepared by Sabrina Gorse Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
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2024 April This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2024-04-17T12:57-0400 English Describing Archives: A Content Standard Martin Behrman Panoramic Photograph of San Francisco, California as Viewed from Rincon Hill in 1851 SPEC.RARE.MMS.0387 Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections 1 0.23 Cubic feet 1910 Martin Behrman (1862-1945) was an amateur photographer and copyist who created reproductions of photographic negatives, daguerreotypes, and photographs of California. The Martin Behrman Panoramic Photograph of San Francisco, California as Viewed from Rincon Hill in 1851 contains an album comprised of an 11-panel photographic reproduction of a panorama of San Francisco, California taken from Rincon Hill in 1851 by an unidentified photographer. Behrman made the reproduction from its original daguerreotype in 1910 as eleven gelatin silver prints. (1) flat box English Behrman, Martin, 1862-1945 Acquisitions Information

Accession No. RARE.2024.0019: Purchased, 2021 August

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[identification of item], Martin Behrman Panoramic Photograph of San Francisco, California as Viewed from Rincon Hill in 1851, SPEC.RARE.MMS.0387, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University

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 Biographical Note

Martin Behrman (1862-1945) was an amateur photographer and copyist who created reproductions of photographic negatives, daguerreotypes, and photographs of California. The negatives and photographs he copied were originally shot by other photographers active in the nineteenth century. Behrman’s work includes collections and albums of reproductions which he gathered together for sale and distribution.

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The Martin Behrman Panoramic Photograph of San Francisco, California as Viewed from Rincon Hill in 1851 contains an album comprised of an 11-panel photographic reproduction of a panorama of San Francisco, California taken from Rincon Hill in 1851 by an unidentified photographer. Behrman made the reproduction from its original daguerreotype in 1910 as eleven gelatin silver prints. Notes and comments identifying the locations pictured as well as copyright credit are handwritten in the negatives copied and in ink on the prints themselves.

 Behrman, Martin, 1862-1945 Copyists--California--20th century Gelatin silver prints Hillside architecture--California--San Francisco--19th century Neighborhoods--California--Rincon Hill--19th century Panoramas--California--San Francisco--19th century Panoramic photographs Photograph albums Photographers--California--19th century Photography--California--Rincon Hill--19th century Photography--California--San Francisco Bay--19th century Reproductions (derivative objects)