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Title
[Building refugee shacks in 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
V1p364a
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 364 top.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Text written to right of photo: "Jefferson Square. Building shacks for sufferers by the fire 1906. Beside the thousands of tents great numbers of these shacks were erected in different sections of the city by the Relief Committee." Photo shows crews building refugee shacks. Those in the background have their walls up but not the roofs, those in the foreground only have the wooden floors up.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photoprint ; 4 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001381013CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-4272
Subject
Refugee camps--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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