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Note
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: San Francisco: a few views showing progress in reconstruction two years after the great conflagration / Photographs by E.N.
Sewell, April 18, 1908
Creator:
Sewell, E. N. (Edward N.)
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 2018.030--fALB
Physical Description:
24 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints 19 x 24 cm, album 24 x 32 cm
Date (inclusive): 1908
Abstract: Photographs documenting reconstruction of San Francisco business and public buildings two years after the April 18, 1906 earthquake
and fire.
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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
San Francisco: a few views showing progress in reconstruction two years after the great conflagration was given to The Bancroft
Library by the estate of Kay A. Barresi in 2017.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], San Francisco: a few views showing progress in reconstruction two years after the great conflagration,
BANC PIC 2018.030, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Content Description
Professional quality street scenes and views of buildings, documenting reconstruction in San Francisco two years after the
April 18, 1906 earthquake and subsequent fires destroyed much of the city. Chiefly pictured are downtown business buildings.
Note
Title printed on front cover.
Note
One in a series of at least 4 albums, apparently issued one per year, containing Sewell's photographs documenting damage and
reconstruction following the 1906 disaster. These titles (some printed on covers, some devised by cataloger) in Bancroft Library
collections are: [E.N. Sewell photographs of San Francisco shortly after the 1906 earthquake and fire] (BANC PIC 2018.028)
– [E.N. Sewell photographs of San Francisco one year after the 1906 earthquake and fire] (BANC PIC 2018.029) -- San Francisco:
a few views showing progress in reconstruction two years after the great conflagration (BANC PIC 2018.030) -- New San Francisco
: three years after the great conflagration ( BANC PIC 1933.007).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
Buildings -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Streets -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs
Sewell, E. N. (Edward N.)