Written on back: "ATLAS UNBURDENED. SAN FRANCISCO: Workmen with careful hands are pictured here, as they start to remove twin Atlas figures from American trust Company building here 8/20. The perfectly molded torsos of the renowned strong man of Greek mythology, after being relieved of their burden, will find a resting place in the San Francisco Maritime Museum. The all-cast -iron building is being razed to provide space for the bank's new 12-story headquarters. Built in 1873, each floor of the four-story structure represented a different period of Grecian architecture."
