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Title: [Burro packtrain leaving Sutter's Fort for Bay Bridge opening, 1936]
Contributor: McCurry Foto Co
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2009-1062
View of burro packtrain leaving Sutter's Fort for the opening celebration of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on November 12, 1936. Men seen are Jake Pfosi, Sr. at right, and M.E. Reed and Jake Pfosi, Jr. at left. Photograph was taken on November 6, 1936. A partial view of a Sutter's Fort bastion is seen on the far left.
McCurry no. Sacramento's contribution to the celebration of the opening of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was the Progress of Transportation Pageant. The Pageant consisted of a different form of transportation leaving Sutter's Fort each day, traveling to San Francisco for the opening. Pageant was sponsored by the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce.
McCurry no.: 31963-9.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Identifier: (C)001393030CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-6381
Language: English
Subject: Celebrations--California--Sacramento
Donkeys--California--Sacramento
Forts & fortifications--California--Sacramento
Packtrains--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Photographs
Sutter's Fort (Sacramento, Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)
Sutter's Fort (Sacramento, Calif.)

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