CENTRE OF THE JOBBING TRADE

Jory 20 1878 F RANK LESLIES ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER 309 N l a lin ll CALIFORNIA VIEW OF SANSOME STREET SHOWING THE CENTRE OF THE JOBBING TRADE OF SAN FRANCISCO AND THE BANK OF CALIFORNIA FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRADLEY RULOFSON j A VIEW ON SANSOME STREEF1 Montgomery. The two latter however are dis houses while in Sansome Street most of the bank than the stone fronts and significant lettering which SAN FRANCISCO tinguished as being also centres of fashionable ing houses and bankers concentrate around the so largely adorns them is the incessant stream of mae Spee taren baie 4 resort whither the San Francisco belles gravitate Bank of California and Stock Exchange. It is quite hurrying crowding tearing buyers and sellers. I HE trade and financial operations of San Fran for their daily promenades or for their serious a wide and handsome street with solid brownstone speculators and successful or unsuccessful competi cisco are pretty evenly divided between San business of shopping California Street is almost buildings many of them noticeable for their archi s tors in the tremendous race that is for ever running some and California Streets and Kearney and exclusively devoted to large importing and jobbing.