Photograph album of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, 1906 LSC.94/84
Jane Carpenter with assistance from Simon Elliott; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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Title: Photograph album of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.94/84
Physical Description:
1 albums
(52 photographic prints) : b&w ; 18 x 29 cm (album)
Photographs are mounted on rectos of first 27 leaves of heavy black paper; 50 small photographs (12 x 10 cm) are mounted two
to a page; the 2 larger photographs (13 x 18 cm) are mounted individually on leaves [26] and [27]; last 23 leaves of album
are blank. Bound in thin black cloth covers, secured along left edges with black silk cord threaded through two pairs of grommets;
gold-stamped cover title "Photographs;" manufacturer's label on back pastedown of the Ideal Specialty Company of Chicago and
New York.
Spec. Coll. copy: illustrated bookplate on front pastedown of Edward A. Dickson. In modern beige cloth-covered clamshell box,
with spine label "San Francisco earthquake and fire."
Date (inclusive): 1906
Abstract: Photograph album containing 52 snapshots of streeets and buildings in San Francisco, following the earthquake and fire of
April 18, 1906.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Language of Material:
English
.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9965350113606533
[Identification of item], Photograph album of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire (Collection 94/84). UCLA Library
Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Most of the photographs document the devastation wreaked by the earthquake and fire to homes, churches, businesses, trolley
lines, streets, and hotels and civic buildings such as the Grand Hotel, Palace Hotel, City Hall, and the Ferry Building and
clock tower. There are several photographs of troops sent from the Presidio and Fort Mason to guard buildings, maintain order,
and prevent looting, as well as nurses gathered in front of a dispensary. Other scenes depict earthquake survivors standing
in bread lines, or perched on the boxes and barrels of their makeshift kitchens set up along the streets, including one street
in "Castro Village." One of the large photographs of the Palace Hotel has ms. caption on verso: "Palace & Grand Hotels when
fire first started. If used, please remit $5.00 to the Pillsbury Picture Co., 4990 Dover St., Oakland, Cal."
Part of the
Photograph Album Collection (Collection 94) in UCLA Library Special Collections.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Street-railroads -- Earthquake effects -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs.
Fires -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs.
Disaster victims -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs.
Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs.
Buildings -- Earthquake effects -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs.
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Photographs.
Photograph albums.
Photographic prints.
Castro (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs.
Trolley cars -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs.
City Hall (San Francisco, Calif.) --Photographs.
Dickson, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1879 or 80-1956, former owner.
Ferry Building (San Francisco, Calif.) --Photographs.
Grand Hotel (San Francisco, Calif.) --Photographs.
Palace Hotel (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Photographs
Pillsbury Picture Co