View from Kearny Street - in the Foreground the Orphans' Asylum

Public domain photograph of 19th-century San Francisco, by George Robinson Fardon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

George Robinson (G.R.) Fardon was born in Birmingham, England in 1807. He first emigrated to New York but relocated to San Francisco in 1849, where he started a photography business. Fardon captured photographic views of the city, including a seven-panel panorama of San Francisco and the published volume San Francisco Album (also known as Views in California). He moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 1859 where he continued to work as a photographer. In 1876 he returned to California, opening a photography studio with William H. Bluett. He died and was buried in Victoria in 1877.