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'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>'''

Claus [[Sugar Palace|Spreckels]] and his descendants ran one of the most successful sugar refining businesses in San Francisco from about the 1880s well into the 20th century.

[[Image:Spreckels-sugar-factory-beneath-Potrero-Hill.jpg]]

'''Spreckels' Sugar Factory [[The Story of Dogpatch|beneath Potrero Hill]], c. 1890s'''

''Photo: Bancroft Library''


[[Image:Western Sugar Refinery AAC-7616.jpg]]

'''Western Sugar Refinery, n.d., near Union Iron Works, San Francisco.'''

''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''


[[Image:Old-spreckels-sugar-bldg-at-end-of-23rd-st-via-bold-italic 11.jpg|720px]]

'''Old Spreckels Sugar Factory at end of 23rd Street early 1970s.'''

''Photo: Robert Durden Color Slide Collection, San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library''

[[Image:1905-Sanborn-Map-of-23rd-Sugarworks-and-gas-works-5850274-s2R.jpg|720px]]

'''The 1905 Sanborn Insurance map shows the configuration of the Spreckels Sugar works and the other industrial facilities in the area.'''

''Map: Courtesy of [http://www.davidrumsey.com David Rumsey]''

[[Image:Sugar workers (women) behind Spreckels Sugar Factor, 23rd Street 1919 wnp27.2836.jpg|800px]]

'''Sugar workers behind Spreckels Sugar Factory on 23rd Street, 1919.'''

''Photo: OpenSFhistory.org wnp27.2836''

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