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Title
First [rail] car through Twin Peaks Tunnel
Creator
Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued
1918
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
V2p152c
In PHOTO ALUBM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. II, page 152 center left.
This photograph is contained in one of two vilumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
View looking south from near the end of West Portal where it meets Sloat Boulevard and Junipero Serra Boulevard. A large crowd has gathered to watch the railcar as it progresses down the line. Numerous autos are seen parked in the background. A small building with a sign reading "Homes, not houses. O.C. Stine & Co." is set up near the tracks. Text below the photo: "First car through Twin Peaks Tunnell [sic] Feb. 3, 1918 Celebration of event." Same image in Vol. I, page 182 second from top, left.
Negative, no. 20,595 (4 x 5 in.).
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 3 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001386715CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-9994
Subject
San Francisco Municipal Railway
Street railroads--California--San Francisco
Events--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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