San Francisco Call report on a brawl at Irish Hill
1897
A clipping from page six of the San Francisco Call for 8 November 1897, describing a police roundup after a drunken fight on Irish Hill. The neighbourhood was a working-class enclave wedged among the shipyards and ironworks of the Potrero waterfront. Digitised from the Chronicling America newspaper archive at the Library of Congress.
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