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Call Number: SC0206
Creator:
Smith, Willet.
Title: San Francisco earthquake and fire collection
Dates: 1906-1979
Physical Description:
1 Linear feet (6 boxes)
Summary: Eyewitness accounts of the 1906 earthquake at Stanford; eyewitness account of earthquake damage to the Stanford and Hopkins
houses in San Francisco; and magazine and newspaper accounts of the earthquake and its aftermath.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 24 hours in advance of intended use.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
[identification of item], San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Collection (SC0216), Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection includes eyewitness accounts of the 1906 earthquake at Stanford; and eyewitness account of earthquake damage
to the Stanford and Hopkins houses in San Francisco by Ah Wing, employee of the Stanford family (in Chinese with an English
translation). Also included are magazine and newspaper accounts of the earthquake and its aftermath; and a 1908 map of San
Francisco showing reconstruction of the city.
Beymer, Jeannette Hayward
Bishop, Beryl Boewell
Burr, Myron Carlos, 1884-1977
Clark, George A.
Evans-Wentz, W. Y. (Walter Yeeling), 1878-1965
Franklin, E. C.
James, William, Mrs.
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931
Klauber, Laurence Monroe, 1883-1968
Marx, Charles David, 1858-1940
Mosher, Clelia Duel, 1863-1940
Otto Gerdes Fund.
Smith, Edgar C.
Smith, Ernst Nathaniel
Stanford University--Earthquake, 1906.
Stansky, Leo
Treat, Payson J. (Payson Jackson), 1879-1972
Wing, Ah
San Francisco (Calif.)--Earthquake and fire, 1906.