Enhanced detail of the California Sugar Refinery works

1881

Enhanced detail of the California Sugar Refinery works

A cropped and digitally cleaned version of the Britton and Rey lithograph of Spreckels's refinery, bringing out the buildings and stacks at Potrero Point. The closer framing shows the scale of the plant that anchored sugar refining in San Francisco.

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