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Title
View of rubble blocking Ellis Street in San Francisco following the earthquake, 1906
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 a view of rubble blocking Ellis Street in San Francisco following the earthquake, 1906. The road runs from the foreground to the background at center and is lined with tall remains of badly damaged buildings. A building at right appears to be under construction, and debris can be seen piled up in the middle of the road. A man in a suit can be seen walking in the foreground at left.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m24625 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-39971
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m24625
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-39971.jpg
Subject
Views
Earthquakes
Roadways
Time Period
1906
Place
California
Ellis Street
San Francisco
USA
Source
39971 [Accession number]
CHS-39971 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: EQUA-146 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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