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Title: City Hall, 1856.
Creator: Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued: 1856
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: V1p36g
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 36 bottom left.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
View looking east across Portsmouth Plaza towards City Hall (former Jenny Lind Theater). El Dorado gambling saloon to left. Horse-drawn carriages pulled up on Kearny Street next to Plaza fence. Text on photo: "City Hall 1856. NO.36580." Same view in Fardon's "San Francisco Views", dated 1855.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint ; 2 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001380449CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-3706
Subject: City & town halls--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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