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Title: Jefferson Square barber shop.
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: V1p335a
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 335 top.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Text written to right of photo: "1906 Jefferson Square Barber shop. A clean shave and an easy shave for 15 cents. 1 towel for one dozen customers. Nothing doing on upper lips." Photo shows two men being shaved inside lean-to, complete with mirrors and actual barbers' chairs, in the Jefferson Square refugee camp. Signs reading "Shaving 15 cents" are written on the mirrors and on the back wall.
Negative, no. 26,528 (4 x 5 in.)
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint ; 4 3/8 x 6 5/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001380987CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-4246
Subject: Refugee camps--California--San Francisco
Barbershops--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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