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View from Hearst Building

January 1, 1940

View south from rear floors of the Hearst / Examiner Building at 3rd and Market, looking across 3rd Street. Williams Building (Clinton Day, architect) and Mercantile Center Building (Aronson Building) in foreground both still stand in 2021. Just beyond Aronson Building is the M.A. Gunst Building (Lansburgh and Joseph, Architects), southwest corner of Mission and 3rd, built 1907. Future site of Yerba Buena and Moscone Center in background, Potrero Hill background right.