Author: Philip Fry & Co.'s Art Repository
Title: Souvenirs San Francisco (Bird's-Eye View)
Description: Philadelphia, PA, Janentzky & Co. (Sole Agents), 1870. First Edition. First edition, n. d. (ca 1870); 14 pp. of sepia-tone lithographs, illustrating 13 scenes in San Francisco + a bird's-eye view of the city and county of San Francisco; folded accordion-style into an oblong, laquered, embossed, black covers; title and ruling to front board and Seal of California to back board in gilt; each pp. 3 x 4 1/2; bird's-eye view 3 x 9; uncolored lithograph street map of the city with accompanying text (public and government buildings, hotels, etc.) folded and attached to back board verso (approx. 11 1/4 x 13 1/4); covers with some chipping and rubbing; map very fragile, browning, with splits and cuts (no losses) and with the map section, where mounted to covers detached; good to very good condition. A set of rare, early views of the City by the Bay, the current publication stated: "12 Copyright Photographs transferred on stone y a new process rendering them permanent.." The scenes included View from California and Powel Streets, Golden Gate, Market Street, California Street from Montgomery Street, Palace Hotel, Bank of California, U. S. Branch Mint, Grand Hotel, erchant's Exchange, Safe Deposit Building, At the Cliff House, Woodward's Gardens, and City and County of San Francisco (bird's-eye view). Several of the scenes showed streetcars, being in the pre-cable cars' period (before the latter were introduced for the first time in 1873). The creators of the album, Philip and Charles Fry (alternately spelled Frey), would become known for using the Glaser-Frey Method of transferring photographic images to lithographic stones and producing several similar-to-the-current-one view books. OCLC lists copies at Yale and the Bancroft; this the only one in the trade (as of October 2018). Good + .

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