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California State Earthquake Investigation Commission Photographs

Owning Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

About this Collection

Photographs taken or collected by the California State
Earthquake Investigation Commission to document the effects of the San Francisco
earthquake of 1906 on the landscape and on buildings, roads and other structures.
Locations range from Humboldt County in the north to San Bernardino and San Diego
counties in the south. View collection guide.

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698 items found in this collection

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7 foot drop in an orchard near Watsonville.Craterlets in the foreground
9th [Ninth] Street near Bryant Street
9th Street facing east from Broadway, Oakland
Abutment of a bridge four miles west of Salinas, displaced
Administration building from north. The hole is the result of the fall ...
Adobe House, corner of Colma Road and San Mateo Road
Affect on Pacific Coast SS.Co.Moved 1st 12 feet ground moved & carried ...
[Agnews Insane Asylum]. North end Female Wards D, E, F. Bay windows ...
[Agnews Insane Asylum.] North side of female wards A,B,C. Bay window facing ...
Albert Pike Memorial Temple (Masonic), Jewish Synagogue. (Geary Street between Fillmore and ...
Alkali Flat near Job's ranch, on line of rift
Alkali Sink on line of rift, near Jobs Ranch
Along Dore Street near Brannan Street
Along Dove (Dore?) Street from Bryant Street
Ancient ridge on the line and the rift, 1 mile west of ...
Ancient ridge on the rift near summit of mountains, leading from desert ...
[Another map of a part of San Francisco.]
[Another view of wrecked interior or Memorial Chapel at Stanford University.]
Arch of Lake Merced Tunnell, sea end
Arches at Stanford showing the dropping of some of the keystones
Arches at Stanford showing the dropping of some of the keystones
Arches shifted on their columns, Stanford
[B Street looking southeast into 4th Street. Santa Rosa.]
Bank building
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