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Early views of San Francisco and photographs of 1906 earthquake aftermath
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Photographs of the San Francisco Earthquake aftermath
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A collection of 68 photographs of the city of San Francisco, California, following the Earthquake of 1906, including elevated views of the ruins. Among the buildings shown are churches, office buildings, stores, government buildings, and the Bells of Shandon, a notorious "crimp house" saloon. Some of the photographs show views of the harbor, buckled streets, and still-smoking ruins.
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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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[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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Photographs of the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and fire
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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."
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San Francisco Earthquake
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The Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Lantern Slides and Transparencies consists of 96 hand-colored lantern slides and autochrome lantern slides, and 52 color transparencies, ca. 1900-1930, depicting houses, landscapes, plants and gardens in and around Pasadena; the Huntington Hotel in Pasadena; aerial views, presumably of Pasadena; mountain lakes and landscapes; desert landscapes and flora; the Grand Canyon, Pueblo ruins, and the Petrified Forest; unidentified landscapes; and the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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The story of San Francisco, 1906
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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.
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