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Title: Receiving news of the Jeffries-Johnson fight at Reno.
Creator: Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued: 1910
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: V2p143a
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. II, page 143 top.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Group portrait of nine men atop a makeshift stage at Dreamland Rink receiving news of the Jeffries-Johnson fight in Reno over a teletype. Two men are announcing the proceedings to the audience through megaphones. A sign is visible at the right announcing the odds. Text written under photo: "Receiving news of the Jefferies [sic] Johnson fight at Reno."
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint ; 6 3/8 x 8 in.
Identifier: (C)001381862CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-5121
Subject: Events--California--San Francisco
Boxing
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Group portraits
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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