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Title: [Thomas Sawyer]
Creator: Sewell, Daniel, 1836-
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1886 and 1905]
Publication Information: San Francisco : Sewell
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Waist-length portrait.
2012-1282.
Born in Brooklyn in 1887, came to California in 1850, where settled in San Francisco. Worked as steamboat engineer, organized and was member of first volunteer fire department, ran saloon on Mission Street, worked for the San Francisco Customs House. Was friend of Mark Twain, who used his name for character in his book "Tom Sawyer."
Type: image
Format: Portraits.
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on cabinet card ; 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001477947CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Sawyer, Thomas,, 1887-1906--Portraits
Pioneers--California--San Francisco
Fire fighters--California--San Francisco
Bartenders--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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