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[San Francisco sewer and utility project photographs].
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Title:

[San Francisco sewer and utility project photographs]

Abstract:

Snapshots documenting sewer maintenance and perhaps other utility projects in San Francisco. Chiefly street-level views of residential city blocks, with some underground details of sewage pipe installation, etc.

Date:

1951 (issued)

Subject:

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Underground utility lines -- California -- San Francisco -- Maintenance and repair -- Photographs
Sewerage -- California -- San Francisco -- Maintenance and repair -- Photographs
Streets -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer, compiler unknown.
Written in ink on front of most prints are annotations that identify location (usually a street or intersection) and oriention of view (i.e. north, south, etc.). Some include date of 1951.
Prints are mounted to black paper sheets, or fragments thereof, that were formerly leaves of an album.
Photographs of San Francisco sewer and utility projects, BANC PIC 2020.088, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Photograph albums.

Physical Description:

photoprint
approximately 185 photographs in 1 folder : gelatin silver prints mounted to paper leaves ; prints and leaves various sizes

Language:

English

Origin:

California