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Title
View of San Jose following the 1906 earthquake, showing soldiers in a camp in a park under martial law, 1906
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
1906
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a view of San Jose following the 1906 earthquake, showing soldiers in a camp in a park under martial law, 1906. Many soldiers in tall boots, dark jackets and hats stand in a grassy yard at center with lightly-colored tents standing on the left along a row of trees. Others stand on the right in the center of a road that runs in the foreground. More tents stand in a row on the right with another group of soldiers in the background behind them.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9868
USC-1-1-1-10006 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-45502
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9868
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-45502.jpg
Subject
Santa Clara County--San Jose--Earthquakes
Views
Earthquakes
Military
Armed Forces
Martial law
Parks
Tents
Camps
Time Period
1906
Place
California
San Jose
Santa Clara
USA
Source
45502 [Accession number]
CHS-45502 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 248 [Identifying number]

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