Heading: (California - San Francisco)
Author: Aiken, Charles Sedgwick
Title: San Francisco, California's Metropolis: The City that Fronts the Orient
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:San Francisco Commissioners to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Date Published: 1904
Description:

[16] pp. Printed in red & black. Illustrated from photographs. 16.2x8.5 cm (6?x3?") after being folded vertically, as intended.

Scarce promotional booklet for San Francisco, with text extolling the vibrant nature of the city, its unique history, and provocative scenery. The selection of photographs includes such solid edifices as the Hall of Justice, the D.O. Mills Building, the Flood Building, the New Merchant's Exchange, and the Spreckels Building, all to be destroyed by earthquake and fire two years later; also, two panoramic vistas, one from the top of the St. Francis Hotel, the other looking east from Ashbury Heights, plus a number of other views. OCLC locates five copies: Columbia University; California Polytechnic; University of California Berkeley; Yale; and Wisconsin Historical Society.

Light wear and a few slight stains, neat repairs to a few short edge tears; very good.