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USS San Francisco circa 1895

Sailors on deck of USS San Francisco, posing with mounted guns. Telegraph Hill in background. The first USS San Francisco (C-5) (later CM-2) was a steel protected cruiser in the United States Navy. She was later named Tahoe and then Yosemite. Built at Union Iron Works, Potrero Hill [US Navy - light and Rapid Fire Guns]
Photographer Unknown (SCRAP Negative Collection / Courtesy of SCRAP)

USS San Francisco USS San Francisco

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