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Description
2007-0437. Nineteen vignettes of San Francisco before and after the earthquake in 1906, made April 18th, 1906. Images described by row, beginning top left in the contents notes. Top row: U.S. Mint, 200,000 people at Golden Gate Park, City Hall, Seals near the coast, Post Office -- Second row: Business District in flames, Reign of martial law & distributing bread, Ferry Building & fire seen from the Bay -- Third row: Chinatown and Telegraph Hill, View of the ruins from Nob Hill, Union Square. Fourth row: View from Stanford residence on Nob Hill -- Fifth row: Sutro Heights, California Street, Newspaper row, Stanford Memorial Chapel, Palace Hotel, Destroyed wholesale houses, Cliff House. From the collection of Dr. Dean L. Mawdsley.
Type
image
Format
Pictorial works. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 print : lithograph, col. ; 20 x 26 image on 22 1/8 x 28 1/4 in. sheet.
Identifier
(C)001387752CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVW-1050
Language
English
Subject
Earthquakes--California--San Francisco Fires--California--San Francisco San Francisco (Calif.)--Pictorial works Prints Lithographs
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