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Title
View of an unidentified building damaged by the 1906 earthquake in San Jose, April, 1906
Date Created and/or Issued
1906-04
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 an unidentified building damaged by the 1906 earthquake in San Jose, April, 1906. The damaged brick walls of the large building still stand upright behind a grass yard which is lined with a row of palm trees. At center a tall, glass dome of the building still stands above the rest, but the brick walls at center are crumbled and expose the thin support frame inside.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m19378 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-45505
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19378
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-45505.jpg
Subject
Santa Clara County--San Jose--Earthquakes
Views
Earthquakes
Buildings
Time Period
1906-04
Place
California
San Jose
Santa Clara
USA
Source
45505 [Accession number]
CHS-45505 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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