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1853
Monarch the bear at the Academy of Sciences
Levi Strauss
• The California Academy of Natural Sciences (modern display pictured, left) is founded in San Francisco
• Levi Strauss & Co. is established when Levi Strauss (pictured, right) arrives from Buttenheim, Bavaria, in San Francisco to open a west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business
• Alameda County is incorporated
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