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Photo Id# AAC-7880
Title Clay street cable car no. 12. 1873 [graphic].
Date 1873.
Description 1 photographic print: b&w.
Location Folder: S.F. Transportation-Cable Cars-Companies-Clay Street Hill Railroad Company.
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Notes On back: "First cable railway in the world, operated by the Clay Street Hill Railroad Company, started in 1873. Car 12 shows Inventor Andrew F. Hallidie in front seat, center."
Copy Negative Negative #941
Subject Transportation -- Cable Cars -- Companies -- Clay Street Hill Railroad Company.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Cable cars (Streetcars) -- California -- San Francisco.
Series San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Source San Francisco Call Bulletin.
San Francisco News-Call Bulletin.