Guide to The Earthquake Story of Stanford University Photograph Album
Daniel Hartwig and Jenny Johnson
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Stanford, California
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Call Number: A0025
Creator:
Breer, Carl, 1883-1970
Title: The earthquake story of Stanford University photograph album
Dates: 1906-1964
Physical Description:
2.75 Linear feet (2 volumes)
Summary: Photographs taken by Carl Breer on the Stanford University campus and in San Francisco shortly after the April 1906 earthquake,
accompanied by text written in 1963-64. Volume one depicts destruction on the Stanford campus, including Memorial Church,
Memorial Arch, Encina Hall, the new Library and Gymnasium buildings, and the Aggasiz statue. Volume two records his trip into
San Francisco with fellow student Ralph Hopkins; locations photographed there include Bernal Heights, intersection of Laguna
and Market streets, Golden Gate park, Red Cross relief stations, and Stanyon Street. There are also photographs taken in 1946
of Breer and the steam car that he designed and built in 1901; other people in those photographs include race car driver Barney
Oldfield and Chrysler engineers Owen Skelton and Fred Zeder.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Gift of Carl Breer, 1964.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
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is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
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The Earthquake Story of Stanford University Photograph Album (A0025). Department of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Breer earned his a.b. in mechanical engineering at Stanford University in 1909.
Photographs taken by Carl Breer on the Stanford University campus and in San Francisco shortly after the April 1906 earthquake,
accompanied by text written in 1963-64. Volume one depicts destruction on the Stanford campus, including Memorial Church,
Memorial Arch, Encina Hall, the new Library and Gymnasium buildings, and the Aggasiz statue. Volume two records his trip into
San Francisco with fellow student Ralph Hopkins; locations photographed there include Bernal Heights, intersection of Laguna
and Market streets, Golden Gate park, Red Cross relief stations, and Stanyon Street. There are also photographs taken in 1946
of Breer and the steam car that he designed and built in 1901; other people in those photographs include race car driver Barney
Oldfield and Chrysler engineers Owen Skelton and Fred Zeder.
Breer, Carl, 1883-1970
Hopkins, Ralph.
Oldfield, Barney.
Skelton, Owen.
Zeder, Fred Morrell, 1886-
Automobiles, Steam--Photographs.
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
Box 1
Photograph Album
Box 2
Photograph Album
Box 3, Folder 1
Copy Prints
Box 3, Folder 2
Copy Prints
Box 3, Folder 3
Copy Prints
Box 3, Folder 4
Clippings with Breer image