[Steeplejack, Ralph Clark, standing on the roof of the Balfour building on California street]

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Local identifier: AAB-3122
Title: [Steeplejack, Ralph Clark, standing on the roof of the Balfour building on California street]
Date: 1949 Oct. 20
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. Streets-California-1940's.
Newscopy: "High winds finally eased today, allowing Ralph Clark, veteran S. F. steeplejack, to climb 55-foot flagpole on Balfour Building, 351 California-st. Mr. Clark (circled, left) found top 20 feet of pole riddled with many dry rot. Despite his weight on pole, which is only three feet from building's edge, and about 20 stories up, it didn't break. Above, in close-up (roof belongs to another building from which News Cameraman Eddie murphy took picture), Mr. Clark removes ball from flagpole."
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Local subjects: Streets--California.
Bibliographic Number: .b10081318
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:191729