[Worker cleaning the exterior of the U. S. Mint building at Market, Buchanan and Duboce streets]

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Local identifier: AAD-3396
Title: [Worker cleaning the exterior of the U. S. Mint building at Market, Buchanan and Duboce streets]
Date: 1945 Nov. 30
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Note: Folder: S.F. Mint-New-Exterior.
On back: "SF383636..... (San Francisco Bureau). SAND, NOT GOLD DUST FLIES OFF MINT - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.--Sand-blaster at work on job of cleaning grime of war years off face of San Francisco, Calif., Mint, wears protection for his face to ward off flying sludge thrown up by combined blast of sand and water. The mint, perched high on a rock in the heart of San Francisco is undergoing an exterior cleansing costing $40,000, first since the building was finished. Coins manufactured in the west coast mint bear an identifying small letter 'S.' (See photos SF383634 and SF383637) Bureaus; CREDIT LINE (ACME) 11/30/45".
"Acme Newspictures Inc."
LCSH Subjects: Buildings--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Local subjects: Buildings--Mint--New.
Bibliographic Number: .b10282117
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:143207