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First news of disaster sent from this cable pole at end of Oakland mole

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Title: First news of disaster sent from this cable pole at end of Oakland mole
Contributor: Dressler, Albert
Date Created and/or Issued: [1906]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Plates in: San Francisco and vicinity : [photograph album]; vol. 2. Ruins ; refugees ; removing debris ; early reconstruction ; pioneer banks ; six months after fire, p. 12b.
"1st office, chief opr. Harry Jeff's getting first wires" -- handwritten on photo. Shows men on platform halfway up pole.
2013-0732.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 5 1/2 x 3 in.
Identifier: (C)001495993CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906--Photographs
Earthquakes--California--San Francisco
Fires--California--San Francisco
Utility poles--California--Oakland
Telegraph industry--California--Oakland
Telegraph operators--California--Oakland
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Place: California
San Francisco
Oakland
San Francisco (Calif.)

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