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Title
[Debris removal] (4 views)
Contributor
Dressler, Albert
Date Created and/or Issued
[1906]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
Plates in: San Francisco and vicinity : [photograph album]; vol. 2. Ruins ; refugees ; removing debris ; early reconstruction ; pioneer banks ; six months after fire, p. 40a - 41b.
View 1 (2013-0904). Taking away the debris by water. Shows wharf, Western Fuel Co., loading debris onto barges -- view 2 (2013-0905). Taking away the debris by rail. Both steam and electric locomotives at work. "Steam & electric power hauling debris" - written on image. Electra locomotive -- view 3 (2013-0906). One of the big debris barges receiving its load. Shows wagons loading debris. Buildings in background include Beaver Hill Coal and Spreckles Line, Coos Bay Direct steamship Breakwater & Czarina -- view 4 (2013-0907). Removing debris from Second Street. Shows electric locomotive (Electra, North Shore) and steam locomotive on street with damaged buildings and debris.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
4 photographic prints ; 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001496167CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906--Photographs
Earthquakes--California--San Francisco
Fires--California--San Francisco
Piers & wharves--California--San Francisco
Debris--California--San Francisco
Barges--California--San Francisco
Boats--California--San Francisco
Railroads--California--San Francisco
Carts & wagons--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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