Unfinished History
19th century industries proliferated south of Market, around the area of today's 1st and Mission.
Mission Works textile mill on southeast corner of First and Mission Streets, 1880
Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
First and Mission Streets, 2023
Photo: Eihway Su
Aetna Iron Works, n.d.
Photo: Bancroft Library
View from First and Howard northward, c. 1891.
Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp37.03620
Robert F. Bunker, Pork Packer.
Photo: Bancroft Library