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Description
V1p186a In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 186 top. This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco." Text written under photo: "Last horse driven car in S.F. Mayor Rolph driver. Sergt. Owen Gormon. Gen. Supt. U.R.R. Henry T. Jones with one hand on rail." View is of the crowded front platform of United Railroads car #45 which made its last trip, according to Anthony Perles' "The Peoples' Railway", on June 3, 1913. This resulted from an agreement between the United Railroads and the city whereby the URR was given permission to electrify the lower portion of its Sutter Street lines on condition that Municipal Railway cars could use the tracks. Negative, no. 5378.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photoprint ; 4 3/8 x 6 1/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001380723CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVV-3980
Subject
Rolph, James,, 1869-1934 Horse railroads--California--San Francisco Street railroads--California--San Francisco Politicians--California--San Francisco San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Group portraits
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