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Title
Bread line on 6th and Mission Streets after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906
Date Created and/or Issued
1906
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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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
Identifier
chs-m9808
USC-2-1-1-9946 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-43349
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9808
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-43349.jpg
Subject
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]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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