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[Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company operations in the San Francisco Bay Area, and snapshots of the 1906 San Francisco
earthquake and fire aftermath].
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[Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company operations in the San Francisco Bay Area, and snapshots of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire aftermath]Creator/Contributor:
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, creator.Abstract:
121 8x10 inch photographs formerly bound in two binders, depicting facilities, equipment, staff, and operations of the Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph Company, chiefly in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley. Offices, staff lounges, switchboards and
operators, machine shops, cable and cable-laying activity, and some staff photographs are included. A few views relate to
buildings damaged in the 1906 earthquake. Also present are 37 snapshots and 18 film negatives in a smaller format, taken in
May 1906 of earthquake and fire damage in San Francisco. Some street kitchen views are included. Negatives do not correspond
to prints. One negative of Joaquin Miller with Bob McKim is present.
Date:
1900 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPacific Telephone and Telegraph Company -- Photographs
Telephone companies -- California -- Photographs
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Photographs
Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers unknown. Many stamped on back: Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co., Office of Chief Engineer, San Francisco, Cal.
There is no obvious relationship between the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph photographs and the 1906 earthquake snapshots.
They were received from the same seller, but their earlier provenance is unknown. On the snapshots, the names Bob McKim and
J.B. Hussey are noted, who may be relations or associates of the photographer or owner.
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Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company operations in the San Francisco Bay Area, and snapshots of the 1906 San Francisco
Earthquake and fire aftermath, BANC PIC 2004.144, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhysical Description:
photonegative
photoprint
158 photographs in 1 box, and 18 film negatives : gelatin silver prints, nitrate film negatives ; prints chiefly 21 x 25 cm
(8 x 10 format)
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
NITRATE NEGATIVES: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.