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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: December 16, 2013
Caption: Bank of California Plaque
Additional Description: A similar plaque at the Union Bank of California entrance portico.

The Bank of California opened for business July 5, 1864 at the southwest corner of Washington and Battery streets. In 1865 construction began on a new home at California and Sansome (this location) which was occupied June 27, 1867. The bank outgrew these quarters and in January 1906 moved to a temporary location at California and Leidesdorff while the present building was being erected. Construction was about to begin when the earthquake and fire occurred April 18, 1906. Work was resumed after the emergency and the bank returned to this site September 8, 1908.
Submitted: December 19, 2013, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p262726
File Size: 3.331 Megabytes

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