Manuscripts

The story of San Francisco, 1906

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Description: Scrapbook of the San Francisco earthquake kept by Alice Pratt Berdell Pedder. Includes a variety of printed items, including news articles and magazine pages, related to the aftermath of the earthquake and fire. Also contains a few original photographs.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1906.
Call number: mssHM 75056
Creator: Pedder, Alice Pratt Berdell (1887-1947)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Elizabeth S. Bleecker-Stockly, trustee of the Elizabeth Evelyn Pedder Estate, November 4, 2009.
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Photographs of the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and fire

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Photographs by an unknown photographer documenting the aftermath of the April 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, California. Images depict the devastated buildings and landscape as well as tent cities and bird's eye views over the city.

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Early views of San Francisco and photographs of 1906 earthquake aftermath

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Photographs of buildings in ruins, survivor's tents, streets, and other details of the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Some small panoramas by Charles Z. Bailey. Also a few photographs of drawings of the city in the 19th century, and images of ships and shipwrecks in the bay.

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San Francisco / Week of April 18, 1906

Manuscripts

Bound in textured black leather. The title, "San Francisco / Week of April 18, 1906" is embossed on upper center of cover in gold lettering. A fleur de lis graphic element is embossed below title. The number "42" is affixed to the top of spine with glue. Album contains mostly mass produced postcards and souvenir photographs of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, very few if any of the images taken by London himself.

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Ella Watson Mizner letter to "My dear Sisters"

Manuscripts

Letter serves as a personal narrative of Ella Watson Mizner's experiences during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire and its aftermath.

mssHM 63716

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Photograph collection of South Pasadena, Berkeley, San Francisco, and other California

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A collection of photographs of scenes in California cities in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, primarily South Pasadena and the Los Angeles area, Catalina Island, Berkeley, and many views of San Francisco in the aftermath of the earthquake and fire of 1906. Other views include workers building the Santa Fe railroad in Pasadena; people hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains; and the Fiesta de Los Angeles parade, 1901, with President William McKinley in a car. Several photographs show the University of California, Berkeley campus, including the 1903 commencement, with speaker Theodore Roosevelt; dormitories; and students in various activities. Photographs of San Francisco include a few taken before the earthquake and many showing the aftermath, with piles of rubble, people sifting through the wreckage, tent camps, and bread lines. There are also personal photographs showing unidentified people in domestic settings, as well as many houses, gardens, and family cats and birds. There are five views of farming in Southern California, showing a steam tractor in action.

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[Views documenting the devastation of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire]

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127 black-and-white photographs mounted on album boards documenting the ruins and damage following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire and primarily showing the damaged exteriors of buildings in San Francisco and at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. The photographs were commissioned and originally owned by Robert C. Jordan who helped rebuild the city. The photographer is unknown.

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The story of San Francisco, 1906

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