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File:1911 ELECTRIC MOTOR INSTALLATION- Photocopy of July 1911 photograph showing the installed 600hp General Electric motor at the Washington and Mason Streets powerhouse. View HAER CAL,38-SANFRA,137-40.tif

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Hallidie, Andrew S; Harvey, Charles T; Beauregard, George F; Gardiner, E S; Eppelsheimer, William; San Fransicso Municipal Railway; Clay Street Hill Railroad; Sutter Street Railroad; Traction Railroad Company; United Railroads of San Francisco; California Street Cable Railroad Company; Stanford, Leland; Root, Henry; Borel, Antoine; Stetson, James B; Market Street Railway; Omnibus Railroad and Cable Company; Sutro, Gustav; Ferries and Cliff House Railway; Adams, W J; Martin, William H; Ballard, John; Magee, Thomas; Lynch, Henry H; Holmes; San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, sponsor; Griffin, Douglas L, project manager; Baer, Marjorie, project manager; O'Bannon, Patrick W, field team project manager
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1911 ELECTRIC MOTOR INSTALLATION- Photocopy of July 1911 photograph showing the installed 600hp General Electric motor at the Washington and Mason Streets powerhouse. View towards the south wall of the first floor. Note the engineer's shack and switchboard behind the motor and its pinion gear. - San Francisco Cable Railway, Washington and Mason Streets, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
Depicted place California; San Francisco County; San Francisco
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER CAL,38-SANFRA,137-40
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  • also CAL, 38-SANFRA-137-A- San Francisco Railway: Cable Car Powerhouse & Barn
  • Significance: The last operating cable railroad in the world. Representative of an important type of urban transportation system intermediary between horse drawn vehicles and electric streetcars.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3
  • Survey number: HAER CA-12
  • Building/structure dates: 1906 Demolished
  • Building/structure dates: 1906-1908 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1911-1912 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1877-1892 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca1237.photos.016273p
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Object location37° 46′ 30″ N, 122° 25′ 05.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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