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Looking east on California St. from Steiner St. [verso:] Even the emigrants from deeply religious European countries had caught enough of the American spirit to realize that the only way to stop the fire was by dynamite and not by miracle. Common intelligence seemed to understand the need of the military measures and the folly of complaint.--Collier's Weekly. [Postcard.]

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Title: Looking east on California St. from Steiner St. [verso:] Even the emigrants from deeply religious European countries had caught enough of the American spirit to realize that the only way to stop the fire was by dynamite and not by miracle. Common intelligence seemed to understand the need of the military measures and the folly of complaint.--Collier's Weekly. [Postcard.]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906
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: Shelf location: SF -- Earthquake (1906) -- Fire Postcards No. 2
Type: image
Format: 9 x 14 cm.
Form/Genre: Photographs
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb2j49n8p4
FN-33760
chs00001257_40a.tif
Subject: Earthquakes--California--San Francisco--Photographs
Fires (burning)--Photographs
San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906--Photographs
Streets--Photographs
Place: California Street (San Francisco, Calif.)
Pictorial works
San Francisco (Calif.)
A0301

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