Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/San Francisco, 1851

 
Original - An 1851 daguerrotype of Portsmouth Square, San Francisco.
Reason
During the daguerrotype era portraiture predominated. Street scenes were unusual and this - from the height of the California gold rush - has particular historical value. Focus is good enough that most of the building signs are legible. I've kept the file on the large side for that reason. Removed the artifacts painstakingly with (I hope) minimal affect to actual data. Adjusted the histogram and denoised the sky, 1.1° rotation. No other changes from Image:SanFrancisco1851.jpg. Appears at California gold rush, History of San Francisco, Portsmouth Square, and boomtown.
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Promoted Image:SanFrancisco1851a.jpg --jjron (talk) 15:48, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]