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San Francisco earthquake and fire snapshot album.
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Title:
San Francisco earthquake and fire snapshot albumAbstract:
Album includes snapshots taken during the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Photographs depict building
ruins, refugee camps, makeshift refugee shelters, street kitchens, and reconstruction scenes. A few photographs depict the
burning fire. Also includes postcards, clippings (some as late as the 1950s), and printed poetry pertaining to the event;
as well as original ink drawings of the ruins of St. John's Episcopal church and the Southern Pacific Railroad Hospital by
F. Gibson. Items are humorously captioned in ms throughout album.
Date:
1906-ca. 1955, bulk 1906-1907 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caSan Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Photographs
Tremblement de terre de San Francisco, Calif., 1906 -- Photographies
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
California
California -- San Francisco
Note:
Photographers, compiler unknown.
Title devised by cataloger.
Purchase; From Ken Harrison Western Americana ; 2012.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Photograph albums.
Postcards.
Drawings.
Physical Description:
photoprint
1 album (ca 45 photographic prints) : 18 x 26 cm
Language:
English