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Description
Photograph of San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the vaults in Continental Insurance Company, formerly proclaimed fireproof, 1906. A bare, wooden frame stands over the fallen bricks and bent metal pieces in the foreground. A doorway stands below a small window in a small portion of a brick wall which still stands at center. The roof has crumbled along with most of the surrounding walls.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
Continental Insurance Company San Francisco County--San Francisco Earthquake--Individual buildings San Francisco--Earthquake (1906)--#6 Views Earthquakes Fires Buildings Vaults (strong rooms) Insurance
Time Period
1906
Place
California San Francisco USA
Source
43937 [Accession number] CHS-43937 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity] unidentified no: 70 [Identifying number]
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