CATALOG ID: P-43290
Emblematic
HD David Hewes Building, San Francisco, CA Named after David Hewes, the man who donated the golden spike for ceremonial completion of the trans-continental railroad. It was built in 1908, and still stands on Market Street as an office building, clad in a modernist facade.
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“Emblematic” (catalogue P-43290) is an antique doorknob recorded in the Public Buildings/Seals category (Category P, Multi-Letters) of the Antique Doorknob Collectors of America archive. It dates to circa 1908; the maker has not been identified. The pattern belongs to the Emblematic school of ornament.
Moving off a platform we had outgrown
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