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Folder: S.F. Banks-American Trust Company. Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions. Written on back: "ATLAS UNBURDENED. SAN FRANCISCO: Workmen with careful hands are pictured here, as they start to remove twin Atlas figures from American trust Company building here 8/20. The perfectly molded torsos of the renowned strong man of Greek mythology, after being relieved of their burden, will find a resting place in the San Francisco Maritime Museum. The all-cast -iron building is being razed to provide space for the bank's new 12-story headquarters. Built in 1873, each floor of the four-story structure represented a different period of Grecian architecture.
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image
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1 photographic print:
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Banks--American Trust Company San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
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