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Description
Photograph of a refugee camp in Jefferson Square after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. A woman and a young boy with a basket stand in the sand in the foreground. A short, stone wall separates the sand from the grassy hill where hundreds of people have set up shelters. Several palm trees stand on the hill on the left while various other trees line the perimeter of the camp in 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 Refugees Tents Camps
Time Period
1906
Place
California San Francisco USA
Source
43392 [Accession number] CHS-43392 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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