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Title: Samuel Brannan Building
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
Contributing Institution: Sacramento Public Library
Collection: Sacramento Room Photographs
Rights Information: This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Description: Captured in 1960, this photograph reveals the Samuel Brannan Building, built in 1853, at 1007 through 1009 Front Street. It was at this same spot - in February 1849 and at the southeast corner of J and Front Streets - that Brannan built a storehouse and mercantile. At one point, he was making up to 15,000 dollars a day selling equipment to miners en route to gold fields and streams.
Type: image
Identifier: 1579
http://sacroom.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll1/id/1872
Subject: Street Scenes
Abandoned Structures
Redevelopment, Sacramento
Source: Sacramento Room Photograph Collection

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