San Francisco: A Few Views Showing Progress in Reconstruction Two Years After the Great Conflagration

Bancroft Library staff

The Bancroft Library

2018

The Bancroft Library

University of California

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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.)

volume (fALB), item 1

[San Francisco cityscape, from atop Merchant’s Exchange Building (?) looking south. Portion of panoramic view also composed of item nos. :02-:04.] 1908