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Title: Colonel Walter N. Kelly letter to Admiral C. Goodrich
Creator: Kelly, Walter
Contributor: Kelly, Walter
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906 May 9
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: Letter from Colonel Kelly, Commander First Infantry of the National Guard, to Admiral Goodrich, USS Chicago, commending the actions of ten sailors from Mare Island and Goat Island bases during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
The men were assigned to details charged with dynamiting buildings in an effort to halt the spread of the fire. Mentions specific locations in the city to which the men were assigned.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Letters
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb4z09p098
MS 3483
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Subject: California--National Guard
Command and control at fires--California--San Francisco
Earthquakes--California--San Francisco
Fires--California--San Francisco
USS Chicago (Cruiser)
Place: North Beach (San Francisco, Calif.)

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