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Title: [Alfred Fuhrman and man standing in front of observatory on the peak of Mt. Tamalpais]
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1928 and 1935]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2008-3374
IN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: F865 A428 1928, pg. 20.
Shows six-sided observation tower built on East Peak.
Plates in: Alfred Fuhrman photograph album, 1928-1935
Alfred Fuhrman was born in Germany, attended the University of Bonn and came to California as a sailor. An active labor agitator in the late 1800's and early 1900's in San Francisco, he was active in the Coast Seamen's Union, organized the Brewers and Maltsters Union of the Pacific Coast, was an early member of the IWA. Took the bar and was active as an attorney beginning around 1893.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 5 1/4 x 3 in.
Identifier: (C)001391669CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-5003
Subject: Fuhrman, Alfred
Observation towers--California--Tamalpais, Mount
Tamalpais, Mount (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums--1930-1940
Time Period: 1930-1940
Place: California
Tamalpais, Mount
Tamalpais, Mount (Calif.)

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