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San Francisco - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | SAN FRANCISCO, the chief seaport and the metropolis of California and the Pacific Coast, the tenth city in population (1910) of the United States, and the largest and most important city W. of the Missouri river, situated centrally on the coast of the state in 37° 47' 22'55" N. and 122° 25' 40. |
 | | The San Francisco Institute of Art, conducted by the San Francisco Art Association (organized 1872), known until the fire of 1906 as the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, was deeded (1893) to the Regents of the State University in trust for art purposes by a later owner. |
 | | In 1885 the assessed property valuation of the city, on a basis of 60 % of the actual value, was $ 22 3,5 0 9,5 60; in 1905, $50 2, 8 9 2,459; 1 in 1910 the total was $492,867,037. |
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