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'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>'''

[[Image:16-1-july-4-1861-Union-Meeting.jpg]]

'''Pro-Union meeting, July 4, 1861, corner of Montgomery, Post, and Market Streets.'''

''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library''


[[Image:16-2-Lincoln-riot.jpg]]

'''A rare photographic image of a nineteenth-century urban riot in progress. Sacramento Street east of Montgomery during the course of the disturbance, showing police lined up to thwart the intentions of those bent on destroying a "secesh" newspaper. Charles and [[Michael De Young|Michael De Young]] apparently scooped up printing and typesetting equipment left in the streets in the wake of riots against Confederate-sympathizing newspapers after Lincoln's assassination, which they used to launch their newspaper The Daily Dramatic Chronicle.'''

''Photo: Lincoln Museum, Ft. Wayne, Indiana''

[[Image:Market-west-from-Montgomery-1865 Lawrence-and-Houseworth Getty.jpg]]

'''Market Street southwest side seen stretching westward from Montgomery Street in 1865, the last year of the Civil War.'''

''Photo: Lawrence & Houseworth, courtesy Getty collection''

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