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Title
San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the California Hotel at Bush and Kearney Streets, 1906
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
1906
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 San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the California Hotel at Bush and Kearney Streets, 1906. Odd pieces of the brick walls of the hotel still stand at center. The sea of fallen bricks have flooded the remains and spilled into the foreground.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9791
USC-1-1-1-9930 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-43929
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9791
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-43929.jpg
Subject
California Hotel
San Francisco County--San Francisco Earthquake--Individual buildings
San Francisco--Earthquake (1906)--#4 (Individual Buildings)
Views
Earthquakes
Fires
Hotels, taverns, etc
Buildings
Time Period
1906
Place
Bush Street & Kearney Street
California
San Francisco
USA
Source
43929 [Accession number]
CHS-43929 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 213 [Identifying number]
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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