San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake of 1868
Processed by Chris McDonald.
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
1997
San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake of 1868
BANC PIC 1984.021 -- CDV
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, California
1997
Finding aid and digital representations of archival materials funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
- Processed and encoded by:
- California Heritage Digital Image Access Project staff in The Bancroft Library and The Library's Electronic Text Unit
- Digital images processed by:
- The Library Photographic Service
- Finding aid completed:
- November 1996
© 1997 The Regents of the University of California
Collection Summary
Collection Title: San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake of
Date: 1868
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1984.021 -- CDV
Extent:
11 cartes de visite, 10 x 7 cm.; 2 stereographs, 9 x 18 cm.
14 digital objects
Photographer:
William Shew,
Hector W. Vaughan,
Eadweard Muybridge,
Isaiah W. Taber
Repository:
The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Languages Represented:
English
Information for Researchers
Access
Restricted originals. Use viewing prints only: shelved as BANC PIC 1984.021 --PIC. Use of originals only by permission of
the Curator of Pictorial Collections, The Bancroft Library.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item],
San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake of 1868 , BANC PIC 1984.021 --CDV, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Digital Representations Available
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake of 1868 collection was received as a gift of the Friends of the Bancroft Library in
1983.
Scope and Content
The San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake of 1868 collection contains eleven cartes de visite and two stereographs taken in 1868
by various photographers. The collection documents the damage exacted by the Hayward earthquake of October 21, 1868, estimated
to have had a Richter scale magnitude of seven. Hayward structures pictured in the collection include the Edminton Grain Warehouse,
the Morse and Heslep Flour Mill, and the San Leandro Courthouse. Also pictured is the Estudillo residence of San Leandro,
and three San Francisco street scenes.
Several prints in the collection are the work of the early San Francisco daguerreotyper William Shew. Other identified photographers
include Hector W. Vaughan, Eadweard Muybridge, and Isaiah W. Taber.
:1--CDV
Effect of Earthquake in San Francisco, 21 Oct. 1868.
Creator/Collector: Eadweard J. Muybridge
:1A--CDV
[Verso.]
Creator/Collector: Eadweard J. Muybridge
:2--CDV
Effects of the Earthquake, Oct. 21, 1868, Cal. St., North side. [No. 983.]
Creator/Collector: [Isaiah W. Taber?]
:3--CDV
Edminton Grain Warehouse, Hayward. 1868.
Creator/Collector: Wiliiam Shew
Morse & Heslep Flour Mill, Hayward, 1868.
:4--CDV
Creator/Collector: William Shew
:5--CDV
Creator/Collector: William Shew
:6--CDV
Hayward's. Oct. 21 -- 1868. San Leandro Court House.
Creator/Collector: William Shew
:7--CDV
Court House at San Leandro. Earthquake. Oct. 21, 1868. [Duplicate of 13.]
Creator/Collector: William Shew
:8--CDV
Estudillo Residence. San Leandro. 1868.
Creator/Collector: William Shew
:9--STER
Effects of the Earthquake, Oct. 21, 1868, Railroad House, Clay St.
Creator/Collector: Isaiah W. Taber
Pacific Coast Views
984
:10--CDV
[Ruins of unidentified building. Following earthquake of 1868. San Francisco?]
Creator/Collector: Hector W. Vaughan.
:11--CDV
Clay St. below Battery. [San Francisco. Following earthquake of October 21, 1868.]
Creator/Collector: Hector W. Vaughan
:12--CDV
1868 Earthquake. [San Francisco?]
Creator/Collector: Hector W. Vaughan.
:13--STER
Court House, San Leandro. County seat of Alameda Co. After the Earthquake. Oct 21, 68 [i.e. 1868]. [Duplicate of 7.]
Creator/Collector: William Shew