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San Francisco Bay Area pipeline construction photographs.
BANC PIC 2008.024--ffALBLOCAL
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Title:

San Francisco Bay Area pipeline construction photographs

Creator/Contributor:

Runnels & Stateler, creator

Abstract:

Large-format photographic prints documenting construction of a pipeline, presumably for irrigation. Workers are shown digging a ditch and laying pipe at an unidentified location near a shoreline in the San Francisco Bay Area, perhaps in Marin County.

Date:

ca. 1885 (issued)

Subject:

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Irrigation -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Photographs
Pipelines -- California -- San Francisco Bay Region -- Photographs
Construction workers -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Pictorial works
Irrigation -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Photographies
Ouvriers de la construction -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Ouvrages illustrés
Construction workers
Irrigation
Pipelines
Marin County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
California -- Marin County
California -- San Francisco Bay Area

Note:

Photographer's imprint in letterpress on mount versos: Runnels & Stateler Photos. 957 Market St., San Francisco, Cal.
Benjamin F. Runnels and John Stateler operated at their 957 Market St. studio from 1883 to at least 1889 (cf. Mautz, Biographies).

Type:

graphic
Photographs.
Pictorial works.
Albumen prints.

Physical Description:

photoprint
4 photographic prints : albumen ; prints 27 x 36 cm., mounts 35 x 43 cm.

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC PIC 2008.024--ffALBLOCAL

Origin:

California