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Title: [Horsecar at Ferry Building]
Creator: Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1913]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: V1p186b
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 186 center.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Text written under photo: "Last horse car to leave the ferry building the policeman is Pete Burns." The last horsecar was #45; this view shows car #46. The Ferry Building is behind it. The car's driver is wearing a hat that says "Sight Seeing Agent." The conductor is standing on the rear platform. A small group of people, including Officer Burns, are waiting behind the car.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint ; 3 3/8 x 6 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001380724CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-3981
Subject: Horse railroads--California--San Francisco
Street railroads--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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