Shows damage caused by 1906 San Francisco earthquake to an 1892 San Francisco Theological Seminary building which housed the campus library. The two other main buildings were only slightly impacted. Rev. Professor Edward A. Wicher wrote; "The Scott Hall, which contains the library, classrooms, professors' rooms and assembly hall, was most seriously injured. Some stones of the tower fell inwards, wrecking a part of the roof and breaking the plaster of the ceilings of the halls beneath. The unexpected rainfall that came on the third night afterwards when everyone thought the rains to be over for the season and which was doubtless induced by the atmospheric conditions caused by the great fire, did further damage to the books of the library." The seminary repaired the building in time for the fall term.
Type
image
Format
Original Photograph
Extent
8 x 10 in. 1 Page of 1
Identifier
csat_000005
Language
English
Provenance
San Francisco Theological Seminary Archives California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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