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View from Nob Hill
View east from Nob Hill above Powell Street between Sacramento and Clay to Ferry Building over Chinatown. Earthquake and fire ruins exist, but much reconstruction has occurred. In left center distance, Appraisers Building, Montgomery Block, U.S. Customs House under construction. Bank of Italy Building at Montgomery and Clay. Donaldina Cameron House at Sacramento and Joice street at right. At far right, Kohl Building, Alaska Commercial Building (1907, Meyers and Ward, Architects). Posters on fence on Powell for the last week of David Warfield's engagement at the Alcazar Theatre and the Emporium's grand reopening on Market Street. Warfield's run concluded on October 10th and the Emporium, then California's largest store, reopened on October 1, 1908. (AS)
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