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Title
[San Francisco Fire Brigade on Meiggs Wharf.]
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1855-1858]
Publication Information
The Bancroft Library;;, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, Phone: (510) 642-6481, Fax: (510) 642-7589, Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu;;, URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections
Rights Information
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All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html
Description
Full length portrait of 8 men standing with a fire hose. All are wearing uniforms and the number 2 is on their helmets. One man holds a brass horn or megaphone.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : ambrotype ; whole plate, visible image 13.2 x 18.2 cm.
Form/Genre
Ambrotypes
Group portraits
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/28722/bk0000x9f50
BANC PIC 1905.16242:105--CASE
brk00040090_8a.tif
Subject
Men
Young adults
Teenagers
Pioneers--California

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