Beautiful certificate from the City and County of San Francisco issued in 1912. This historic document was printed by the Security Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of angel standing on bow of wooden ship with steamship and exposition grounds behind. This item has the signatures of the City’s Mayor, James Rolph and Treasurer, John E. McDougald and is over 97 years old. —Scripophily.com
City of San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exposition (World’s Fair) $1000 Bond San Francisco, CA. 1912
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Gawker Artists: F. Alan Zimmerman
The last 160 years have transformed San Francisco, but the city it once was can still be seen. To travel back to the days before the bridges, before the earthquake, before cable cars trundled up its steep hills, we find San Francisco alive and breathing as it was in its infancy, in the…
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