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Title: [Ruins of City Hall]
Creator: Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: V1p226b
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 226 bottom.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Text written under photo: "Rome in all her splendor of ruins had nothing on this. 1906." View of ruined City Hall looking northeast from Polk Street. A man and a woman are posing for the camera in the right foreground. A number of other people can be seen viewing the ruins. Rubble is everywhere.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint ; 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001380780CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-4037
Subject: Earthquakes--California--San Francisco
City & town halls--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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