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Title: Nuns - one of the 10th Street Sisters to Sister M. Berkmans in Oakland, and she to H.S.S
Creator: Sisters of Mercy (San Francisco, Calif.)
Contributor: Sisters of Mercy (San Francisco, Calif.)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1900
1999
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 tells of escape from the fire to Oakland by 41 nuns, including the Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of the Holy Names, and the Italian Sisters. Mentions destruction of the new 10th St. Convent.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Letters
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb5n39p0ns
MS 3508
chs00000354_42a.xml
Subject: Fires--California--San Francisco
Nuns--California--San Francisco--Correspondence
Refugees--California--Oakland
San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906--Personal narratives
Sisters of Mercy (San Francisco, Calif.)

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