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Meiggs WharfCreated page with "'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' Image:Meiggs-Wharf-c-1865-75-JJ Getty.jpg '''Meiggs Wharf, seen in this photo from the slopes of Telegraph Hill extending northward into the bay sometime between 1865-1875, started from the corner of today's Powell and Francisco Streets, now many blocks from the shoreline.''' ''Photo: J.J. Reilly, courtesy Getty collection'' Image:Meiggs-Wharf-from-Russ..."current
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Mechanics PavilionCreated page with "'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' Image:1st-fair-building.jpg By the summer of 1857 the Mechanics Institute erected a Fair Building on a sandy hill on the outskirts of town—on Montgomery Street between Post and Sutter. The wood frame building had a canvas roof and was approximately 18,000 square feet—then the largest building in California. The interior was cross-shaped, with four rooms..."