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Title: [Buildings burning at the intersection of California and Front streets]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906 Apr. 18
Contributing Institution: San Francisco Public Library
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Description: Folder: S.F. Earthquakes-1906-Districts-Downtown.
Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
On front: "(FX5) SAN FRANCISCO, April 18--This special transmission for The WASHINGTON POST shows the southwest corner of California and Front streets block and a half north of Market Street as fires started by the devastating earthquake of April 18, 1906. Most of the town's downtown area was devastated by the fire. (otto60745ho) 1969".
[Some sources identify this as Mission and Third streets].
Negative #8403
Type: image
Extent: 1 photographic print:
Subject: Earthquakes--1906--Districts--Downtown
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906

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