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View from Merchants Exchange

January 1, 1910

[V-140] Elevated view northwest from the Merchants Exchange Building to scene showing much reconstruction and some buildings still in ruins. William Tell House, Mergenthaler Linotype (638 Sacramento), Chy Lung & Co. Chinese & Japanese Bazaar (676 Sacramento). Russian Hill at left, Chinatown (Dr. Ong Ting Shew Tea and Herbs, Dr. Chow Juyan Tea and Herbs) Portsmouth Square (with Lyceum Theater near Kearny and Washington corner), North Beach, Columbus Ave, St. Francis of Assisi Church (still gutted from fire), Bay in distance, Telegraph Hill at right. On Kearny: Dr. Field & Co's Free Museum, Lundstrom Hats, Harris' Loan Office, 615 Kearny, City Loan Office 621 Kearny, Hotel McDonough 706 Kearny. Streetcar on Washington near Kearny. [G810 V-140] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)