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Title
Grace Church.
Creator
Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued
[1906]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
V1p142a
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 142 top.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Text written under photo: "Grace Cathedral N.W. cor. Taylor & Sacramento." Written above photo: "Grace Church?" View of Grace Church after the earthquake and fire of 1906. According to Bishop William Ford Nichols' autobiography "Days of My Age", Grace did not become a cathedral until after 1906. It was, previous to the disaster, actually located on California between Dupont and Stockton. Church is burned out. Ruins seen in foreground, with rubble spilling into street. The new addition to the Chronicle Building, with a crane on top, can be seen in the distance.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photoprint ; 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001380663CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-3920
Subject
Churches--California--San Francisco
Earthquakes--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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