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Title
Broken wires on mission street, San Francisco, 1906
Creator
Rieden, Cardinell and Company
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 broken wires on mission street, San Francisco, 1906. People walk down the center of the road with tracks on either side of them. On the left, electrical poles are mangled and their wires are bent and tangled. Trees stand in the background on the left while the debris from fallen buildings lies in piles on the right. More of the city can be seen in the distance.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m24345 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-39916
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m24345
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-39916.jpg
Subject
Views
Earthquakes
Fires
Buildings
Streets
Street-railroads
Roadways
Time Period
1906
Place
California
Mission Street
San Francisco
USA
Source
39916 [Accession number]
CHS-39916 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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