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Title: Telegraph Hill. Cable, r.r., B 1271
Creator: Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912
Date Created and/or Issued: 1882
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2017-0485.
Shows Telegraph Hill Railroad Co. cars no. 2 and 3. Street bordered by houses; at top of hill is Telegraph Hill Observatory (or German Castle) built by Frederick O. Layman as tourist attraction (opened in 1882).
Also have negative: no. 20,322 (5x4 in.)
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : boudoir card, print ; 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001601153CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Telegraph Hill Railroad Company--Photographs
Cable railroads--California--San Francisco
Houses--California--San Francisco
Streets--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Telegraph Hill (San Francisco, Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)
Telegraph Hill (San Francisco, Calif.)

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