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[Charles Plumbly lantern slide photographs of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire].
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Title:

[Charles Plumbly lantern slide photographs of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire]

Creator/Contributor:

Plumbly, Charles, creator, photographer.

Abstract:

Views of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

Date:

1906 (issued)

Subject:

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San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Photographs
Projectors -- Specimens
Projectors
California

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Attributed by donor to Plumbly, great uncle of donor's father.
Affixed to most slides are labels with descriptive hand-written captions. Printed on some labels is name of lantern slide manufacturer: Williams, Brown & Earle, 918 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Lantern slide projectors housed in OBJ boxes 1-2; accessories box in OBJ box 3; original projector storage box in OBJ box 4.
Gift ; Of Robert Moore ; 2015.
Charles Plumbly lantern slide photographs of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire, BANC PIC 2016.038, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Specimens.
Photographs.
Lantern slides.

Physical Description:

transparency
50 photographs in 2 boxes : hand-colored lantern slides ; slides 9 x 10 cm + 2 lantern slide projectors, 1 wooden box of projector accessories and 1 wooden projector storage box.

Language:

English

Origin:

California