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Title
Kearny and Post Streets, San Francisco, September 1888.
Creator
Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Contributor
Dressler, Albert
Date Created and/or Issued
1888
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
V1p188b
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 188 bottom.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Caption printed on photo: "Kearny and Post Sts., San Francisco, Sept. 1888. Albert Dressler." Text written under photo: "Kearny Street at Post. 1888 [date changed from 1908]. Note the 'White House' and Roos Brothers stores." View of west side of Kearny at intersection of Post. Roos Bros. Leading Clothiers can be seen at the near corner, the White House store (with an arrow pointing at it) at the far. The White House bears a sign for the "Fall-Winter 1888 Great Opening." The sidewalks are crowded. Horse-drawn carts are in the street. A man is atop a ladder working on a streetlight. Two horsecars of the North Beach and Mission Railroad are about to pass on Kearny.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photoprint ; 4 1/8 x 5 3/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001380740CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-3997
Subject
Stores & shops--California--San Francisco
Buildings--California--San Francisco
Streets--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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