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Owner W.F. Camp established his Premium Saw Shop in San Francisco, CA, in 1850. An advertisement in the Sacramento Daily Union read in 04/1859: "W.F. Camp, Practical Saw Maker, Nos. 98 and 100 Jackson street, San Francisco, Importer and Dealer in all kinds of Saws, Files, Hardware, Cutlery, etc. Particular attention paid to inserting teeth in large Circular Saws. Also, Saws gummed and straightened in the first style of the art, and warranted stiff and true, and the lowest prices charged. N.B.--New Orleans Butcher Saws with extra blades, etc." (See "Premium Saw Shop," [classified advertisement] Sacramento Daily Union, vol. 17, no. 2510, 04/13/1859, p. 4.) There was at least another saw shop operating in the Jackson Square area in 1859; George Stead operated a saw store that sold new and repaired old saws on the northeast corner of Jackson and Battery Streets. Stead sold and serviced R. Hoe and Company saws and sawblades.

PCAD id: 20582