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(SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE)
Album with approximately 265 photographs depicting the aftermath of the vastly
consequential San Francisco earthquake.
With all-encompassing images highlighting the extensive damage and destruction caused by the 1906
earthquake. Including post-apocalyptic street scenes showing plumes of smoke rising from the city’s
downtown buildings, some engulfed in flames, and others reduced to rubble. A number of images
show displaced families in temporary encampments, set up in the city’s parks, as well as numerous
scenes of people waiting in breadlines, and citizens examining the ruins. Silver prints, the images
each measuring 4
1
/
2
x6
1
/
2
inches (11.4x16.5 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, mounted
recto/verso to black pages, some with notations in the negative identifying locations and
photographer’s studios, such as Pillsbury Picture Co.,T. Hecht Photo,A. L. Mubat, and Bushnell Foto
Co. Oblong folio, brown leather boards with a twin bolt binding, worn, backstrip perished. 1906
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