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[Harry Smith photographs, including San Francisco views after the 1906 earthquake and fire].
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Title:
[Harry Smith photographs, including San Francisco views after the 1906 earthquake and fire]Creator/Contributor:
Smith, Harry, 1883-1973, creator, photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Sullivan, Richard S.Creator/Contributor:
Stephen White Gallery of PhotographyAbstract:
Chiefly views of San Francisco, including several taken after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Also includes views taken at Oaklane
Ranch (in California?). Smith family members depicted in some images.
Date:
1906 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caSan Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Photographs
Tremblement de terre de San Francisco, Calif., 1906 -- Photographies
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
California
California -- San Francisco
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Title devised by cataloger.
Printed between 1979 and 1981; issued in association with Harry Smith, magic moments, a 1981 publication by Stephen White
Gallery which reproduces all but one (no. 20) of the images in this collection.
Stamped on backs of some prints: All images originally photographed by Harry Smith. Modern hand-coated palladium print by
[signed in pencil:] Richard Sullivan.
A few prints include caption and number stamps with statement: From an edition of 50 photographs. These prints also include
1981 copyright stamp of Stephen White Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif.
Some prints mounted and matted.
Item list available in library.
Purchase; From Dawson's Book Shop ; 2001.
Son of Danish immigrants; grew up in San Francisco; self-taught amateur photographer.
Preferred citation: Harry Smith photographs, including San Francisco views after the 1906 earthquake and fire, BANC PIC 2001.198,
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Palladium prints.
Physical Description:
photoprint
20 photographs in 1 box : palladium prints ; sheets 38 x 48 cm, image area 28 x 35 cm (11 x 14 format)
Language:
English