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Description
Photograph of a bread line on 6th and Mission Streets after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. Men in dark suits and hats stand in a line which reaches from the right foreground to the left distance. Several soldiers in uniform and with guns in hand monitor the line from the left. One soldier stands on a pile of rubble which lies in the foreground on the left. Supplies are piled behind the rubble on the left where broken electrical lines stand overhead. The remains of large buildings stand in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 13 x 18 cm. photographic prints photographs
San Francisco County--San Francisco Earthquake--Aftermath San Francisco--Earthquake (1906)--#5 (Aftermath) Views Earthquakes Fires Buildings Refugees Food Bread Armed Forces Military Camps
Time Period
1906
Place
6th Street & Mission Street California San Francisco USA
Source
43349 [Accession number] CHS-43349 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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