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Guide to The Earthquake Story of Stanford University Photograph Album
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  • Administrative Information
  • Biographical/Historical Sketch
  • Description of the Collection
  • Access Terms

  • Overview

    Call Number: A0025
    Creator: Breer, Carl, 1883-1970
    Title: The earthquake story of Stanford University photograph album
    Dates: 1906-1964
    Physical Description: 2.75 Linear feet (2 volumes)
    Summary: Photographs taken by Carl Breer on the Stanford University campus and in San Francisco shortly after the April 1906 earthquake, accompanied by text written in 1963-64. Volume one depicts destruction on the Stanford campus, including Memorial Church, Memorial Arch, Encina Hall, the new Library and Gymnasium buildings, and the Aggasiz statue. Volume two records his trip into San Francisco with fellow student Ralph Hopkins; locations photographed there include Bernal Heights, intersection of Laguna and Market streets, Golden Gate park, Red Cross relief stations, and Stanyon Street. There are also photographs taken in 1946 of Breer and the steam car that he designed and built in 1901; other people in those photographs include race car driver Barney Oldfield and Chrysler engineers Owen Skelton and Fred Zeder.
    Language(s): The materials are in English.
    Repository: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
    Green Library
    557 Escondido Mall
    Stanford, CA 94305-6064
    Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
    Phone: (650) 725-1022
    URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

    Administrative Information

    Provenance

    Gift of Carl Breer, 1964.

    Information about Access

    This collection is open for research.

    Ownership & Copyright

    All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
    Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

    Cite As

    The Earthquake Story of Stanford University Photograph Album (A0025). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

    Biographical/Historical Sketch

    Breer earned his a.b. in mechanical engineering at Stanford University in 1909.

    Description of the Collection

    Photographs taken by Carl Breer on the Stanford University campus and in San Francisco shortly after the April 1906 earthquake, accompanied by text written in 1963-64. Volume one depicts destruction on the Stanford campus, including Memorial Church, Memorial Arch, Encina Hall, the new Library and Gymnasium buildings, and the Aggasiz statue. Volume two records his trip into San Francisco with fellow student Ralph Hopkins; locations photographed there include Bernal Heights, intersection of Laguna and Market streets, Golden Gate park, Red Cross relief stations, and Stanyon Street. There are also photographs taken in 1946 of Breer and the steam car that he designed and built in 1901; other people in those photographs include race car driver Barney Oldfield and Chrysler engineers Owen Skelton and Fred Zeder.

    Access Terms

    Breer, Carl, 1883-1970
    Hopkins, Ralph.
    Oldfield, Barney.
    Skelton, Owen.
    Zeder, Fred Morrell, 1886-
    Automobiles, Steam--Photographs.
    San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906