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Description
V2p99a -- v2p99b In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. II, page 99 top and bottom. These photographs are contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco." Text written under bottom photo: "Raising the grade on Market St it having sunk 18 inches 1923." View 1 (top photo v2p99a). Looks down Market toward the Ferry Building from about Sansome. Photo taken from between the two excavated outbound streetcar tracks; it can be seen that the tracks themselves are well below grade. Various series of Municipal Railway and United Railroads streetcars are visible. View 2 (bottom photo v2p99b). Photo taken on Market from Drumm Street looking west. Shows auto in right foreground, streetcars at distant left, excavation around the outbound rails. At far right workmen use what looks like a rock crusher. Behind them is the Fife Building. The Hobart Building is in the far left distance; the Standard Oil Building can be seen to the right of it. Also have negative no. (4x5 in.): 29,793 for v2p99a; and, 29,794 for v2p99b.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
2 photoprints ; 7 1/4 x 10 in. or smaller.
Identifier
(C)001381719CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVV-4978
Subject
Construction--California--San Francisco Excavation--California--San Francisco Street railroads--California--San Francisco Automobiles--California--San Francisco San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints
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