Early Industries in SOMA

Unfinished History

19th century industries proliferated south of Market, around the area of today's 1st and Mission.

Mission Works textile mill on southeast corner of First and Mission Streets, 1880

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

Aetna Iron Works, n.d.

Photo: Bancroft Library

View from First and Harrison northward, c. 1891.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp37.03620

Robert F. Bunker, Pork Packer.

Photo: Bancroft Library

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