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Buildings damaged in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire [graphic]
BANC PIC 1981.003--PICLOCAL
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Title:
Buildings damaged in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fireCreator/Contributor:
R.J. Waters & Company, creatorAbstract:
Collection contains commercial photographic prints taken by R.J. Waters & Co. in San Francisco following the disaster of 1906.
Views show earthquake and fire damage to various locales. Buildings pictured include Mills Building, San Francisco Gas & Electric
Building, Hotel St. Francis, the California Electrical Works of the Western Electric Co., and the unburned liquor warehouse
of A.P. Hotaling. Also pictured are refugees and makeshift refugee housing, and a cityscape from Twin Peaks showing the burned
area in the distance and the Eureka Valley district in foreground.
Date:
1906 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caFires -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Buildings -- Earthquake effects -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Photographs
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc -- Pictorial works
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Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographed by R.J. Waters & Co.
Type:
graphicPhysical Description:
graphic
photoprint
5 photographic prints : b&w ; 19 x 24 cm. or smaller.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1981.003--PICLOCAL