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Title
Emergency and Detention Hospital, Jefferson Square.
Creator
Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued
1906
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
V1p365b
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 365 center.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Text written to right of photo: "Emergency and Detention Hospital Jefferson Square after the fire 1906. All Emergency cases were treated in this building for several years subsequent to the fire." Photo shows the wooden, barracks-like hospital with a horse-drawn ambulance parked in front. A wooden crate is sitting on the sidewalk next to an elaborate streetlight. Three men are walking.
Negative, no. 20,156.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photoprint ; 4 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001381017CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-4276
Subject
Hospitals--California--San Francisco
Ambulances--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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