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View from Hearst Building 1940

Elevated view south from rear floors of the Hearst / Examiner Building at 3rd and Market. Mercantile Center Building (Aronson Building) in foreground still stands 2021. Beyond is 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 in the distance.
Photographer Unknown (Courtesy of a Private Collector)

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