Guide to the San Francisco Earthquake Photographs MSS.Photo.0534

Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2021
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu


Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: San Francisco Earthquake Photographs
Creator: Newsom, John F. (John Flesher), 1869-1928
source: J.F. Branner, original donor
Creator: Pillsbury Picture Co.
Creator: Bear Photo Service (San Francisco, Calif.)
Creator: Lawrence, Geo. R. (George R.)
Creator: Bushnell Foto Co.
Creator: Street, W. J.
Creator: Branner, John Casper, 1850-1922
Creator: Anderson, Robert Van Vleck, 1884-1949
Creator: Moran, Robert B., 1879-1961
Creator: Fairbanks, W. W.
Creator: Durrell, C. E.
Creator: Commercial Art Co.
Creator: Haley, George W., 1879-1963
Creator: Gardiner, William Everard
Creator: Horne, Robert W., 1880-
Creator: Dudley, William Russel, 1849-1911
Creator: Hodson & Walsh
Creator: Moller, J. B.
Creator: Moran, Jack
Creator: O. Newman
Creator: Stewart & Rogers
Creator: Smith
Creator: Waring, Gerald A. (Gerald Ashley), 1883-
Creator: Stoddard
Creator: Webster, F. A. (Frederick Arthur), 1860-
Creator: Lick Observatory
Creator: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931
Identifier/Call Number: MSS.Photo.0534
Identifier/Call Number: 241
Physical Description: 3 Linear Feet (1 box, 3 oversize folders)
Date (inclusive): 1906
Abstract: Photographs documenting the 1906 earthquake in California.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Most photographs have been digitized.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Accessions MSS 2007-038, 2016-164, 2016-174 and others.

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], San Francisco earthquake photographs (MSS Photo 0534). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Scope and Contents

Artificial collection of photographs chronicling the after-effects of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906. The core of the collection consists of images fromy the California State Earthquake Investigation Commission expeditions led by John Caspar Branner, many of which were published as figures in their reports. To these have been added various unassociated earthquake photographs in Stanford's holdings, including images of damage in Redwood City, Mendocino County, and many in downtown San Francisco. There is also a series of panoramic aerial photographs, most published by San Francisco newspapers.

Conditions Governing Use

This material is believed to be in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
Geology -- Earthquakes -- Photographs
Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco.
San Francisco -- California
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
J.F. Branner, original donor

box 1, folder 1

Lick Observatory record of first 15 seconds of quake

box 1, folder 2

unidentified places- building damage

box 1, folder 3

unidentified places - fault escarpments

box 1, folder 4

Santa Cruz Mountains: Woodside, Portola Valley, Searsville, Milpitas/Coyote Creek, Wright's etc.

box 1, folder 5

Crystal Springs

box 1, folder 6

San Mateo

box 1, folder 7

Redwood City

box 1, folder 8

St. Patricks Seminary (2 postcards)

box 1, folder 9

Saratoga, Watsonville, Salinas, Half Moon Bay, Cahill Ridge fault escarpments

box 1, folder 10

Hollister, Gilroy

box 1, folder 11

Marin County- Olema, Pt. Reyes, Marshall, Tomales Bay (& at least 1 Milpitas)

box 1, folder 12

Fort Ross

box 1, folder 13

Fort Bragg

box 1, folder 14

Mendocino County fault escarpments

box 1, folder 15

San Francisco - W.J. Street commercial prints

box 1, folder 16

San Francisco - credited commercial prints

box 1, folder 17

San Francisco - numbered or captioned prints

box 1, folder 18

San Francisco

box 1, folder 19

unidentified negative signed "Evans" possibly San Francisco

box 1, folder 20

San Francisco mounted prints

box 1, folder 21

San Francisco - Market Street Area (unbound photo album)

box 1, folder 22

Oakland

Scope and Contents

1 print, duplicate transferred from Gardiner collection.
box 1, folder 23

Santa Barbara County - Lompoc Hills - Robert Anderson

map-folder 2

Birds-Eye View of Ruins of San Francisco From Captive Airship 600 Feet Above Folsom Between 5th and 6th Streets. By Geo. R. Lawrence Co. Chicago, Illinois May 5, 1906

Physical Description: Stamped "Smith Brothers 470-474 13th St. Oakland, Calif."
map-folder 2

San Francisco Two Years After. Photograph From Lawrence Captive Airship. 1000 Ft. Above California and Powell Sts. May 9, 1908

map-folder 3

San Francisco Examiner Supplement - Birdseye View of the Ruins of San Francisco. (c) Geo. R. Lawrence May 13, 1906

map-folder 3

San Francisco Examiner Supplement - Panoramic View of San Francisco From the Water Front (c) Geo. R. Lawrence June 3, 1906

Physical Description: 2 copies
map-folder 3

San Francisco Examiner Supplement - Birdseye View of San Francisco From Top of Wrecked City Hall Dome. (c) Hearst June 10, 1906

map-folder 3

San Francisco Examiner Supplement - In the Heart of the Ruins - Panorama Taken From The Roof of the St. Francis Hotel. (c) Hearst June 24, 1906

Physical Description: 2 copies
map-folder 3

San Francisco Examiner Supplement No.1 - The Stretch of Ruin From Nob Hill to Russian Hill, Taken From the Top of the Fairmount Hotel. Telephoto by Theodore Kytka. (c) Kytka July 8, 1906

Physical Description: 2 copies
map-folder 3

San Francisco Examiner Supplement No.2 - Panorama of the Ruins in the Valley That Sweeps from Russian Hill to Telegraph Hill. Showing Alcatraz Island in the Distance. (c) Kytka) July 15, 1906

Physical Description: 2 copies
map-folder 3

San Francisco Examiner Supplement No.3 - Panorama of the Ruins From Telegraph Hill to the Base of Rincon Hill. Showing All that Remains of the Heart of the Wholesale and Manufacturing Districts. (c) Kytka July 22, 1906

map-folder 3

San Francisco Examiner Supplement No.4 - Panorama of the Fashionable Shopping and Retail Districts as the Camera Sees Them. From the Top of the Fairmount Hotel. (c) Kytka July 29, 1906

Physical Description: 2 copies
map-folder 3

San Francisco Examiner Supplement No.5 - Panorama of the Western Addition and the Mission. Showing the Ruins of the City Hall and St. Ignatius College, With Twin Peaks and Strawberry Hill in the Distance. (c) Kytka August 5, 1906

map-folder 4

Panorama of San Francisco From the Ferry Building. (c) Pillsbury Co. No. 230 1906

Physical Description: Print is torn.