Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Description
Folder: S.F. Ships-Launching. Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions. Written on back: "These three guillotines (similar to the contraption that executed Marie Antoinette in the French revolution) will sever huge hawsers, these in turn releasing props that hold the American Leader on the ways until moment of launching. The props are shown in the photograph directly below.
Type
image
Extent
1 photographic print :
Language
Eng
Subject
Ships--Launching San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
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