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[Workmen removing a molded torso of a Greek mythological figure from the exterior of the American Trust Company]

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Title: [Workmen removing a molded torso of a Greek mythological figure from the exterior of the American Trust Company]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1959 Aug. 25
Contributing Institution: San Francisco Public Library
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Description: 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.
Type: image
Extent: 1 photographic print:
Subject: Banks--American Trust Company
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs

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