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Title: Refugee shacks in Lobos Square.
Creator: Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: V1p334a
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 334 top.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Text written to left of photo: "Lobos Square 1906." Text written underneath: "Refugee Shacks in Lobos Square occupied by Fire Suffers [sic] 1906." Photo shows earthquake and fire refugees living in shacks made of wood, corrugated metal, canvas, and even hay. Fort Mason and the bay can be seen in the distance.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint ; 4 1/8 x 6 5/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001380984CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-4243
Subject: Refugee camps--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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