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Title: Damage to the Empire Theatre by the Earthquake of 1906 [picture]
Creator: Estey & Rogers
Contributor: Estey, Charles V., 1873-1940
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906 April
Publication Information: Oakland Public Library
Contributing Institution: Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Center
Collection: Selections from the Collections of the Oakland History Center
Rights Information: Public domain
Material is in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Title from item. Caption: "Estey & Rogers 1012 Fillmore St. SF". A contact print from the glass negative. The photograph depicts damage to the Empire Theatre by the earthquake of April 18, 1906. Five members of the Marneys, an acting troupe performing at the theater, were killed in upstairs lodgings when the roof collapsed.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1n39q5p8
copl_158
Neg. 8, Estey & Rogers Collection.
Subject: Theaters - California - Oakland - Pictorial works
Earthquakes - California - Oakland - Pictorial works
San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906 - Pictorial works
Place: Oakland (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works.
Oakland (Calif.) - Buildings, structures, etc. - Pictorial works.

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