Visual Materials

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire collection

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Description: Two photograph albums of San Francisco after the earthquake in 1906. Also two maps showing burned districts of San Francisco.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1906.
Call number: photCL 137
Provenance: Gift of John C. Crowley, August 2001.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

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

Visual Materials

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.

photCL 398

Destruction of San Francisco by earthquake & fire

Visual Materials

Image of nineteen views of scenes and buildings in San Francisco, California, after the great earthquake and fire of 1906; views of buildings and elevated street views show destruction from the disaster, including people taking refuge in Golden Gate Park, distribution of bread, and ruins from various vantage points in the city; each scene is captioned.

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Photograph of San Francisco Earthquake

Manuscripts

25 photographs. Also: pass to cross the lines during the period after the San Francisco fire. San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906—Photographs

HM 48770

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Photographs of the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and fire

Visual Materials

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.

photCL 494

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San Francisco earthquake and fire photomechanical stereograph set

Visual Materials

A set of 60 color, photomechanically-printed stereograph images of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The cards have printed text, but the maker is unidentified. Cards are in a black box with title on top.

photCL 731

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Photographs of the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and fire

Visual Materials

86 photographs of the destruction caused by the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco. Views include street scenes with pedestrians and bystanders and destroyed or damaged commercial buildings and private residences with a focus on many of the city's breweries and malt houses. The photographer, Theodore Rueger, was the proprietor of the Benicia Brewery and Soda Works in Benicia, California. Eighteen of the photographs were reproduced in the June 1, 1906 edition of the "American Brewers' Review" in an article entitled "In Stricken Frisco."

photCL 570

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire collection

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