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Title: Escape from the San Francisco fire and earthquake
Creator: Sherman, Frederick Barreda
Contributor: Sherman, Frederick Barreda
Barreda, Rosa
Date Created and/or Issued: 1963, Oct
1963-10
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: In her letter, Barreda gives a firsthand account of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, with details about her family's escape from the fire to Redwood City. Mentions Willis Polk, San Francisco architect and brother-in-law of Barreda.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Letters
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb9b69p2zp
MS 3460
chs00000049_42a.xml
Subject: Earthquakes--California--San Francisco--Personal narratives
Fires--California--San Francisco--Personal narratives
San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906--Personal narratives
Women--California--Correspondence

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