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Title
Homes and business places erected by Fire Refugees.
Creator
Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued
1906
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
V1p335c
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 335 bottom.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Text written to right of photo: "Homes and Business places erected by Fire Refugees on the hill back of the Protestant Orphan Asylum 1906." View shows tents and hastily assembled wooden structures. The tent in the center is occupied by a boot repairman, advertised by a sign showing a boot and reading "Repairing Neatly Done." Three men in the background appear to be about to put up another structure. A woman is looking on. The Orphan's Asylum building can be seen in the right distance.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photoprint ; 4 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001380994CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-4253
Subject
Refugee camps--California--San Francisco
Shoemakers
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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