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Title: An eye witness
Creator: Robertson, Myrtle
Contributor: Robertson, Myrtle
Date Created and/or Issued: undated
Publication Information: CaliforniaHistoricalSociety, North Baker Research Library, 678 Mission Street,San Francisco, CA 94105-4014; http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/collections/northbaker_research.html
Contributing Institution: California Historical Society
Collection: 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection: Selections from the California Historical Society
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Narrator of document was an art student at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute, San Francisco, during the time of the earthquake.
Narrative by Myrtle Robertson, "given substantially in her own words," giving a firsthand account of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The narrative is preceded by a brief introduction by an unknown transcriber.
Type: text
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb0c6003kb
MS 3498
chs00000480_42a.xml
Subject: Earthquakes--California--San Francisco--Personal narratives
Fires--California--San Francisco--Personal narratives
San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906--Personal narratives

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