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Description
Photograph of San Francisco earthquake damage, showing a crowd in front of the ruins of City Hall, 1906. Bricks and slabs of wood lie in a large pile across the foreground. A crowd of people, some in a horse-drawn carriage, observe the damage from a driveway at center. Edges of the walls of the City Hall Building have crumbled on the right and left. The exterior of the dome tower has crumbled leaving its interior frame exposed at center. The statue depicting a woman holding a flame still stands in tact on top of the dome.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 13 x 18 cm. photographic prints photographs
City Hall San Francisco County--San Francisco Earthquake--Individual buildings San Francisco--Earthquake (1906)--#4 (Individual Buildings) Views Earthquakes Fires Buildings Municipal government
Time Period
1906
Place
California San Francisco USA
Source
43353 [Accession number] CHS-43353 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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