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Title: [Powell Street cable car on display at Chicago Railroad Fair]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949 Aug. 3
Contributing Institution: San Francisco Public Library
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Description: Folder: S.F. Transportation-Cable Cars-Lines-Powell-Mason.
Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
On back: "Two thousand miles removed from its regular route, a San Francisco cable car is being operated by Western Pacific at the Chicago Railroad Fair. The car carries capacity loads up a steep incline to return to a turn-table the replica of the one at Market St., San Francisco.
Type: image
Extent: 1 photographic print:
Subject: Transportation--Cable Cars--Lines--Powell-Mason
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs

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