San Francisco Earthquake Scrapbook, 1893; 1898-1910

Collection context

Summary

Title:
San Francisco Earthquake Scrapbook,
Dates:
1893; 1898-1910
Creators:
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], San Francisco Earthquake Scrapbook, Mss162, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Background

Scope and content:

Identified in gold letters as "Crane Company. Plumbing, Gas, Steam, and Water Supplies, 1893" at 23 & 25 First Street, San Francisco, California, this 275 pp. illustrated catalog of plumbing supplies describes, lists and provides sizes and prices of fittings and equipment. The newspapers clippings pasted over the Crane Catalogue pages are mostly unidentified and undated. There are over 96 pages on the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. Other topics include articles on Presidents' wives, President and Mrs. Mckinley, Queen Victoria, lectures, woman suffrage, society news, religion and the afterlife, food and beauty aids.

Biographical / historical:

This scrapbook of newspaper clippings from San Francisco and Stockton papers offers few clues as to who created it, other than that it was pasted in a Crane Plumbing Company catalog and that the articles chosen reflect a Stockton woman's interests. The scrapbook has been styled "San Francisco Earthquake Scrapbook" because approximately one-third of all pages in the book are devoted to this topic.

Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Physical description:
0.25 linear ft.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Daryl Morrison; revised by Don Walker; machine-readable finding aid created by Don Walker
Date Prepared:
© 1998
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Date of source: 1994; 1998.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], San Francisco Earthquake Scrapbook, Mss162, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Location of this collection:
University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University Library
Stockton, CA 95211, US
Contact:
(209) 946-2404