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The Native Sons Building in San Francisco

NATIVE SONS BUILDING

ORIGINALLY ERECTED 1896 DESTROYED BY FIRE AFTER THE 1906 EARTHQUAKE REBUILT 1912. DEDICATE BY S.F. HALL ASSOCIATION 9-15-1912.

IT STANDS HERE AS A TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE DISCOVERY, CIVILIZATION, AND GLORY OF CALIFORNIA AND TO THE NATIVE SONS OF THE GOLDEN WEST WHO THROUGH ITS PRECEPTS OF FRIENDSHIP, LOYALTY, AND CHARITY, FOREVER WILL KEEP ALIVE THE HISTORY AND GLORY OF OUR BELOVED CALIFORNIA.

 

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