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Title
Panama Pottery
Creator
Frederick-Burkett Foto Service
Date Created and/or Issued
1931
Contributing Institution
Sacramento Public Library
Collection
Sacramento Room Photographs
Rights Information
This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Description
An October 26, 1931 photograph shows the façade of the Panama Pottery factory at 4421 Twenty-Fourth Street, nearly three blocks south of Sacramento Stadium and Sacramento Junior College. Three years earlier, the business a support structure due to fire while, in 1937, the entire structure was gutted by fire, claiming over 100,000 dollars in damages and the jobs of 20 workers. Fighting the latter conflagration was hindered by a lack of water, which had to be pumped from the Western Pacific Railroad shops.
Type
Image
Identifier
1891
http://sacroom.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll1/id/2725
Subject
Potteries
Business Enterprises
Signage
Source
Sacramento Room Photograph Collection

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