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Description
Photograph of San Francisco earthquake damage, showing scavengers searching for melted jewelry in the ashes of the mansions on Nob Hill, 1906. A crowd of people in dark clothes kneel over the ground where a mansion burned to the ground at center. A metal fence indicates the edge of the property to the right of the people. The ruined cityscape stands in a cloud of dust across the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 10 x 15 cm. photographic prints photographs
San Francisco County--San Francisco Earthquake--Aftermath San Francisco--Earthquake (1906)--#5 (Aftermath) Views Earthquakes Fires Buildings Jewelry Dwellings
Time Period
1906
Place
California San Francisco USA
Source
43346 [Accession number] CHS-43346 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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