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City Hall Nov 4, 1927

Mayor Rolph, tennis star Helen Wills (first American woman athlete to become a global celebrity], former U.S. Senator and San Francisco Mayor James D. Phelan , on steps of City Hall. Sculpture is Haig Patigian's "Helen of California", now in the de Young Museum, a gift of Phelan [dpwbook40 dpwA669 ]
DPW Horace Chaffee (SF Department of Public Works / Courtesy of a Private Collector)

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