[People lining up for cigarettes in the alley behind the Appraisers Building]

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Local identifier: AAC-4715
Title: [People lining up for cigarettes in the alley behind the Appraisers Building]
Date: 1945 Feb. 21
Issuance: monographic
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
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: S.F. Appraisers Building.
Newscopy: "UNCLE SAM'S CIGARET [sic] LINE--Cigarets [sic]--a carton of a popular variety--were assured 819 persons lined up this morning in the alley behind the Appraisers' Building, Washington and Sansome-sts. The smokes were seized from merchant seamen who attempted to smuggle the tax-free cartons into the United States. Working on the theory of 'first come, first served.' U.S. Custom Department officials in charge, lined purchasers in serpentine fashion more than five times the length of the block. First in line, Fred Fianci, was worker, arrived at 5:45 and got his carton at 9:05. The congregation included a scattering of servicemen and few mothers with babies in arms.".
Negative #8210
LCSH Subjects: Buildings--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Local subjects: Buildings--Appraisers Building.
Bibliographic Number: .b10195841
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:134583