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Description
2002-0192. View of horse-drawn police patrol wagon in front of the station house and city jail at Front & I Streets. Two policemen standing next to the wagon, one in driver's seat. Negative, no. 5,729 (4 x 5 in.) Mrs. Alice Simpson; Showing Sacramento's horse-drawn Police Patrol. Wagon was built around 1895, served as Police transportation and city ambulance until 1907. Nicknamed "The Black Maria." Brick structure in background erected in 1854 to house City Jail, a court room, various city offices, City Water Works. In 1857, taken over exclusively by Police Department with construction of new City Hall at 4th and J.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 6 x 9 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001383964CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVV-7233
Language
English
Subject
Carts & wagons--California--Sacramento Police--California--Sacramento Police stations--California--Sacramento Ambulances--California--Sacramento City & town halls--California--Sacramento Courthouses--California--Sacramento Waterworks--California--Sacramento Sacramento (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints
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