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San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of various buildings on Kearney Street looking towards Market Street from Sutter Street, 1906

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Title	San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of various buildings on Kearney Street looking towards Market Street from Sutter Street, 1906
Description	Photograph of San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of various buildings on Kearney Street looking towards Market Street from Sutter Street, 1906. Five men in dark suits look at the sea of rubble before them from the left foreground. Many buildings in the back still stand in tact, but are still heavily damaged and charred from the fire. Some of the buildings shown include Sherman, Clay and Company Building, Kohler and Chase, the Crocker Building, Chronicle Annex, and the Call Building.; Caption reads: "After the San Francisco fire of April 18, 19, 20, '06. Kearney St. towards Market from Sutter St., showing ruins of Sherman, Clay & Co., Kohler & Chase, and many other prominent business houses; also showing the Crocker Building on the left. "Chronicle" Annex in center and "Call" Building on right." -- Copyrighted 1906, by Rieder, Cardinell & Co.
Subject	Sherman, Clay and Company; Kohler and Chase; Crocker Building; San Francisco Chronicle; Call Building
Subject (adlf)	buildings
Subject (file heading)	San Francisco County -- San Francisco Earthquake -- Aftermath; San Francisco -- Earthquake (1906) -- #5 (Aftermath)
Subject (lcsh)	Views Earthquakes Fires Buildings
Geographic subject (roadway)	Kearney Street
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	San Francisco
Geographic subject (county)	San Francisco
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	1906
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1906
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 15 cm.
Format (aat)	photographic prints photographs
Contributing entity	California Historical Society
Accession number	43331
Call number	CHS-43331
Identifying number	unidentified no: 21
Legacy record ID	chs-m9829; USC-0-1-1-9967
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	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
Physical access	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 740-5900; fax (213) 740-2343
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@dots.usc.edu
Filename	CHS-43331
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Archival file	chs_Volume70/CHS-43331.tiff

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San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of various buildings on Kearney Street looking towards Market Street from Sutter Street, 1906

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