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Title
Earthquake damage to the City Hall in San Francisco
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
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 earthquake damage to the City Hall in San Francisco, [s.d.]. The large opening at center is blanketed in debris. At center the city hall building stands with large portions of its outer walls crumbled. Its dome tower on the left has lost most of its outer walls leaving its interior exposed. A second, shorter dome stands on the right with most of its surrounding base in piles of rubble below it.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m23813 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-49448
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m23813
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-49448.jpg
Subject
Views
Earthquakes
Buildings
Place
California
San Francisco
USA
Source
49448 [Accession number]
CHS-49448 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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