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Finding Aid to San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Views, 1906
BANC PIC 1905.05851-.05878--PIC
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Collection Title: San Francisco earthquake and fire views,
Date (inclusive): 1906
Collection number: BANC PIC 1905.05851-.05878--PIC
Creator:
Street, W. J.
Extent:
1 album (28 photographic prints)
28 digital objects
Repository: The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Abstract: Collection contains commercial photographic prints taken in
San Francisco by W.J. Street during and after the disaster of 1906.
Languages represented: Collection materials are in English.
Physical location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored
offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the
location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research. Please use digital facsimiles when possible.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection
materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Access Services, The
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. Consent is
given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and
does not constitute permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be
obtained from the copyright owner. See: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use
of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Views, BANC PIC
1905.05851-.05878--PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Digital reproductions of all images are available.
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Views collection was a gift to The Bancroft
Library from Charles Gauld in 1937.
No additions are expected.
Processed by Bancroft Library staff in 2005.
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection contains commercial photographic prints taken in San Francisco by W.J.
Street during and after the disaster of 1906. Views show fires burning, earthquake
and fire damage, subsidence of streets, U.S. Army troops, and refugee camps. Among
the buildings and locations pictured are the Call Building, Palace Hotel, City Hall,
Market St., Nob Hill, South of Market District, and Union Square.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Earthquakes--California--San Francisco--Photographs.
Fires--California--San Francisco--Photographs.
San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906--Photographs.
San Francisco (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Photographs