[63-foot Coast Defense gun headed for Fort Cronkhite]

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Local identifier: AAC-1048
Title: [63-foot Coast Defense gun headed for Fort Cronkhite]
Date: 1939 June 20
Issuance: monographic
Collection: California Photograph Collection
Collection Number: SFP 131
Location: San Francisco Public Library
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Note: Folder: CA. Fort Cronkhite
Newscopy: "This 63-foot Coast Defense gun arrived today to bolster the Army's protection for the Golden Gate. A special Army flatcar brought the huge barrel from the East, with its complicated mechanism on another special car."
16-inch caliber coast artillery gun at railway siding in Sausalito, headed for Battery Townsely, Fort Cronkhite
Cumulative Index and Finding Aids Note: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8tt4z0b/
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Artillery--California--San Francisco
Presidio of San Francisco (Calif.)
Bibliographic Number: .b10163748
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:131375