Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of buildings on the California Street hill from Sansome Street, 1906. Slabs of wood from the damaged building on the right lie across the foreground. Bricks lie in front of the crumbling building on the left. Several people along with a horse-drawn carriage move down the street at center towards the damaged buildings in the background. The new Merchants Exchange Building is still standing. Copyrighted and published by J.D. Cardinell, Oakland, Calif, 1906.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w photographic prints photographs
San Francisco County--San Francisco Earthquake--Street scenes San Francisco--Earthquake (1906)--#7 Views Earthquakes Fires Buildings Streets Carriages and carts Roadways
Time Period
1906
Place
California Street California San Francisco USA
Source
43371 [Accession number] CHS-43371 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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