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Title
Police Court session in Portsmouth Square.
Creator
Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued
1918
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
V1p327a
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 327 center.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Text written under photo: "Sesson of the Police Court. Department No. 2. Judge John J. Sullivan being held in Portsmouth Square-during the epidemic of influenza in San Francisco October 1918 in front of Robert Louis Stevenson's Memorial Tablet." Photo shows court being held in the square; four men in suits sitting at three tables in front of the monument, others standing behind and at the left; buildings of Chinatown visible behind.
Negative, no. 19,434 (4x5")
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photoprint ; 7 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001380955CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-4214
Subject
Judicial proceedings--California--San Francisco
Monuments & memorials--California--San Francisco
Judges--California--San Francisco
Police--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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