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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of San Francisco earthquake damage, showing ruins of the Orpheum and Alcazar Theaters, 1906. The buildings which line the street into the background have suffered heavy damage. Their roofs have crumbled to the ground and most of their exterior walls are spilling into the street at center. Toppled electrical poles lie over the debris. Copyrighted and published by J.D. Cardinell, Oakland, Calif, 1906.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w photographic prints photographs
Orpheum Theater Alcazar Theater San Francisco County--San Francisco Earthquake--Street scenes San Francisco--Earthquake (1906)--#7 Views Earthquakes Fires Buildings Streets Theaters
Time Period
1906
Place
California O'Farrell Street San Francisco USA
Source
43368 [Accession number] CHS-43368 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity] unidentified no: 11 [Identifying number]
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