Image / The Human Fly climbing the side of the Humboldt Bank Building.

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Title: The Human Fly climbing the side of the Humboldt Bank Building.
Creator: Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued: 1919
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: V2p149b
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. II, page 149 top right.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Photo taken from above showing a man climbing up the side of the Humboldt Bank Building. A crowd of spectators is gathered below on Market Street, some even standing on the roof of a streetcar. Text written under photo: "Human Fly Climbing side of Humboldt Bank Building July 1919."
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint ; 4 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001381965CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-5224
Subject: Events--California--San Francisco
Spectators--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Portraits
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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