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Title
New home being erected for the Regal Shoe Company.
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
V1p364c
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 364 bottom.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Text written to right of photo: "New Home being erected for the Regal Shoe Company 1906." The framework of the structure has been built amid piles of bricks and ruined buildings. The framework of the Whittel Building is visible in the background. Lumber is neatly stacked in the foreground. This temporary home for the Regal Shoe Company was built on part of the site of the Phelan Building at Market and O'Farrell and was, according to William Bronson in "The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned," the first business to open on Market Street following the disaster.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photoprint ; 4 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001381015CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-4274
Subject
Construction--California--San Francisco
Shoe stores--California--San Francisco
Earthquakes--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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