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Title: 1906, Santa Clara, Agnews Asylum ruins
Creator: Unknown
Contributor: Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998 (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Historic Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the California Room: http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.htm
Description: Photograph of Agnews Asylum ruins after 1906 earthquake. There was severe damage and 101 patients and 11 staff members were killed.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg2000
Master images scanned at 300 dpi and scaled to 6000 pixels on the longest side. Bit depth: grayscale at 8-bit; color at 24-bit. Images compressed to 800 pixels across the long dimension and to JPEG format. Scanning outsourced to Luna Imaging Inc. as part of an LSTA Grant funded by the California State Library in 2003-2004. Scanning hardware is unknown.
Extent: 12 x 17 cm.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/arbuckle/id/811
Language: English
Subject: Buildings
Disasters
Earthquakes
Hospitals
Men
Pedestrians
Women
Agnews State Hospital (San Jose, Calif." San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
Place: Santa Clara County
California
Source: Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection

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