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Title: St. Patrick's Church After 1906 Earthquake
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Historic Postcard 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://sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.htm
Description: St. Patrick's Church lies in ruins after the 1906 earthquake. The brick structure had been unable to withstand the violent shaking. Debris from the church has fallen into the street. The church had been built in 1881 at the northwest corner of Ninth and Santa Clara Streets. Within a year after the earthquake a new church had been erected on this site.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg2000
Scanned with Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner as a 600 dpi TIFF image and 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed to JPEG format using Photoshop CS2.
Extent: 5.5 x 3.5 in.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/sjplpc/id/204
Language: English
Subject: Earthquakes
Disasters
Churches
Place: San Jose
California
Source: Historic Postcard Collection

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