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Stereograph Cards of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906
BANC PIC 1989.018--STER
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Collection Title: Stereograph Cards of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
Date: 1906
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1989.018--STER
Extent:
60 photomechanical prints : stereograph, color ; 9 x 18 cm.
59 digital objects
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Collection is available for use.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted
in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library
as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must
also be obtained by the reader.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted
to research and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], Stereograph cards of the San Francisco earthquake and fire, 1906, BANC PIC 1989.018--STER, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley
Digital Representations Available
Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image
files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were copied onto
35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and the Photo CD
files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.
The earthquake stereographs were purchased in 1989.
This collection consists of 60 color stereographs of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. The publishers of the
photomechanical prints are unknown. Includes images of earthquake and fire damage of buildings in San Francisco, such as the
Fairmont Hotel, City Hall, the Post Office building, and the Masonic Temple. Also includes images of refugee camps set up
in parks, bread lines, destruction of San Francisco districts and neighborhoods such as Chinatown, Market Street, and Union
Square, cracks in streets and train tracks, and the destruction of buildings by dynamite in an effort to stop the fire. Printed
captions below the images are reprinted in the container listing. Each stereograph has a paragraph printed on its verso recording
some anecdote of the days of the earthquake and fire -these paragraphs are not included in the container listing.