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San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake of 1868
BANC PIC 1984.021 -- CDV
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Collection Title: San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake of
Date: 1868
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1984.021 -- CDV
Extent:
11 cartes de visite, 10 x 7 cm.; 2 stereographs, 9 x 18 cm.
14 digital objects
Photographer:
William Shew,
Hector W. Vaughan,
Eadweard
Muybridge
,
Isaiah W. Taber
,
Isaiah W. Taber
Repository:
The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Languages Represented:
English
Restricted originals. Use viewing prints only: shelved as BANC PIC 1984.021 --PIC. Use of originals only by permission of
the Curator of Pictorial Collections, The Bancroft Library.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted
in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library
as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must
also be obtained by the reader.
Copyright 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 Bay Area Earthquake of 1868 , BANC PIC 1984.021 --CDV, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Digital Representations Available
Digital representations of selected
original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below.
Digital image files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were
copied onto 35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and
the Photo CD files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.
The San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake of 1868 collection was received as a gift of the Friends of the Bancroft Library in
1983.
The San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake of 1868 collection contains eleven cartes de visite and two stereographs taken in 1868
by various photographers. The collection documents the damage exacted by the Hayward earthquake of October 21, 1868, estimated
to have had a Richter scale magnitude of seven. Hayward structures pictured in the collection include the Edminton Grain Warehouse,
the Morse and Heslep Flour Mill, and the San Leandro Courthouse. Also pictured is the Estudillo residence of San Leandro,
and three San Francisco street scenes.
Several prints in the collection are the work of the early San Francisco daguerreotyper William Shew. Other identified photographers
include Hector W. Vaughan,
Eadweard
Muybridge
, and Isaiah W. Taber.
Eadweard
Muybridge
, and Isaiah W. Taber.