California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

View of Batter Street, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, [s.d.]

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View of Batter Street, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a view of Batter Street, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, [s.d.]. The street has been transformed into a sea of fallen bricks and wooden debris. Nothing stands in the foreground, but the few remaining walls of a large buildings with arched windows still stand in the background on the right. More heavily damaged buildings can be seen on either side of the street further down.

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Title View of Batter Street, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, [s.d.]

Subject buildings (lcsh), Earthquakes (lcsh), Fires (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Battery Street (roadway), California (states), San Francisco (city or populated place), San Francisco (counties), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m24053

Identifier 49476 (accession number), CHS-49476 (call number), CHS-49476 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-22942 (legacy record id), chs-m24053 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 22942

Unique identifier UC124032

Legacy Identifier CHS-49476.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 26.9 in × 19.2 in at 300dpi
68.5 cm × 48.9 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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