PCAD - Schmidt Lithography Company, Factory, South Beach, San Francisco, CA

Lithograph view of the Schmidt Lithograph Company, San Francisco, c. 1908; from the Santa Barbara City Directory, 1908, p. 217

Lithograph view of the Schmidt Lithograph, Company, front facade, San Francisco, 1893. From R.L. Polk and Company's Seattle Seattle City Directory, 1893, p. 224

Lithographic view of the Schmidt Lthography Company Factory, rear view, San Francisco, CA, c. 1893. From R.L. Polk and Company's Seattle Seattle City Directory, 1893, p. 224

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2nd Street and Brannan Street
South Beach, San Francisco, CA 94107

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Overview

This lithography business begun by Max Schmidt in 1872, had grown to huge proportions by 1900. The Schmidt Lithography Company printed all sorts of documents, labels and containers for a range of clients across the West. Its previous three-story plant at 2nd and Bryant Streets burned in the fire following the San Francisco Earthquake of 04/18/1906. This new plant reopened at 2nd and Brannan Streets in 1908.

Alteration

A notice in an 1925 issue (month unknown) of the Architect and Engineer (vols. 80-81) on page 122, stated that a four-story, reinforced-concrete addition to the Schmidt Lithograph plant was under construction at 2nd and Brannan Streets in San Francisco, CA. R. McLeran and Company had the contract for the addition.

PCAD id: 19725

Links

Epics of Industrial Progress: The Schmidt Lithography Company by P.J. Randolph