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Title
Prescott Scott & Co. Foundry.
Creator
Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1879]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
V1p123b
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 123 bottom.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Text written under photo: "Prescott Scott & Co. Foundry 1873." View is of two-story wooden foundry building with wheels, pipes and other metal products stacked around the building, against the fence and in the yard to the left. Sign on building identifies it as a "boiler and machine shop" and gives the office address as 61 First St. Firm name is not listed in the 1873-74 S.F. City Directory but is listed in the 1879-80 edition, gives address as the northeast corner of First and Mission, and mentions the firm as proprietors of the Union Iron Works, as does written caption underneath photo at the bottom of page 86.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photoprint ; 3 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001380597CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-3854
Subject
Foundries--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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