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Title: [Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy]
Date Created and/or Issued: 192u
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2019-1187.
Bust-length portrait.
Born in 1864 in County Limerick, Ireland. Emigrated to United States in 1885, settling in San Francisco. Worked as civil engineer on variety of projects over years - Valley and Mohawk Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894, Spring Valley Water Company, Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and power project. Appointed chief engineer for the city of San Francisco in 1912. Died in 1934.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.
Language: English
Subject: O'Shaughnessy, M. M.,, 1864-1934--Portraits
Irish Americans--California--San Francisco--Portraits
Engineers
San Francisco (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Photographic prints
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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