Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Photograph included in the exhibit: “Edited for Publication: Photographic Manipulations in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner” Photograph caption dated April 18, 1932 reads, "San Francisco today commemorates the twenty-sixth anniversary of the great fire which swept over four square miles of the city, took a toll of 500 lives and destroyed property worth $400,000,000. This dramatic photo shows a large cross formed in midst of clouds of smoke which rose above the flaming city. Many who beheld it regard it as a miraculous manifestation."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 Fires--California--San Francisco Earthquakes--California--San Francisco San Francisco (Calif.) Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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