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Title
[Great Western Smelling Refining Company]
Creator
Stellman, Louis J. (Louis John), 1877-1961
Date Created and/or Issued
1906
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
2005-0248
PHOTO: SAN FRANCISCO: EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE, 1906: RECONSTRUCTION: STELLMAN COLLECTION, # 14,254b
Elevated view of loading dock filled with piles of iron and scrap salvage; center foreground shows men standing next to wagonload of iron scrap, piles at left, right and beyond on wood plank dock; masts of sailing vessel in background; smokestack of steamer in distance, right of center.
Handwritten on verso: Gt. Western Smelting & Refining Co's huge pile which contains 25,000 tons of scrap iron.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 5 x 7 in.
Identifier
(C)001386672CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-9951
Subject
Great Western Smelting and Refining Company
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
Loading docks--California--San Francisco
Iron industry--California--San Francisco
Salvage--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Aerial views
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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