FEATURED WEB PAGE: AN 1856 SAN FRANCISCO MINT VISIT
The E-Sylum (6/9/2013)
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This week's Featured Web Page is suggested by Dave Ginsburg. It's an October 1856 article in Hutchings' California Magazine which described a visit to the San Francisco Mint. Thanks.On the north side of Commercial street, between Montgomery and Kearny, there stands a dark, heavy looking building, with heavy iron bars, and heavy iron shutters, to windows and doors; and high above, standing on, and just peering over a heavy cornice, there is a large American eagle; looking down into the building, as if he meant to see, and take notes, of all that is going on within, "and print 'em too."
At his back there is a small forest of chimney stacks, from which various kinds of smoke, and different colored fumes, are issuing. This building is the Branch Mint of San Francisco.
