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Title
Testing fire apparatus.
Creator
Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued
1914
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
V1p274b
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 274 center.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Text written under photo: "Testing fire apparatus. Bush looking East. 1914." View looks east on Bush Street from about Kearny. Smoke is issuing from somewhere on the left. A shiny new motor-driver hook and ladder truck is proceeding west on Bush accompanied by an automobile full of dignitaries. A streetcar behind the truck waits to proceed. A crowd of onlookers has gathered. Wooden barriers and piled bricks are at the extreme left. The Mills Building is visible in the background.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photoprint ; 4 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001380859CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-4116
Subject
Streets--California--San Francisco
Buildings--California--San Francisco
Fire engines & equipment--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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