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Title: Cliff House burning, San Francisco.
Creator: Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued: September 7, 1907
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: V1p27b
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 27 bottom.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
View to north from Ocean beach of Cliff House burning. Crowd on beach including boy with bicycle and woman. More spectators closer to building. Text under photo: "Note- the northern rocks obscured by smoke. James D. Phelan was one of the spectators." Penciled in below photo: "Harold Matson in white shirt."
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint ; 5 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001380427CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-3684
Subject: Phelan, James D.. (James Duval),, 1861-1930
Cliff House (San Francisco, Calif.)
Buildings--California--San Francisco
Fires--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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