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Title: Clay Street Cable Railroad.
Creator: Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Contributor: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca.1875]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: V1p43a
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 43 top.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Cable Car headed uphill on Clay Street. 2 female, 7 male passengers on grip car. Conductor on dummy car. Text on photo: "B. 127. Clay St. Cable R.R. S.F. Watkins new boudoir series. Yosemite and pacific Coast. 427 Montgomery Street, San Francisco." Text under photo: "First street cable railway in San Francisco."
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint ; 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001380472CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-3729
Subject: Cable railroads--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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