Refugees at a food station after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906

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Title Refugees at a food station after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906

Description Photograph of refugees at a food station after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. Two men in dark suits and hats carry food down a long staircase at center. A third man stands at the bottom of the steps in the foreground on the left while hundreds more stand in the food line at the top of the steps of the right. The line faces a small tent at the top of a grass hill on the left.

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1906

Subject buildings (lcsh), camps (adlf), Earthquakes (lcsh), Fires (lcsh), Food (lcsh), Refugees (lcsh), San Francisco -- Earthquake (1906) -- #5 (Aftermath) (file heading), San Francisco County -- San Francisco Earthquake -- Aftermath (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1906

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

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

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-m9819

Identifier 43338 (accession number), CHS-43338 (call number), CHS-43338 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10061 (legacy record id), chs-m9819 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-9957 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10061

Unique identifier UC140055

Legacy Identifier CHS-43338.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.5 in × 15.7 in at 300dpi
52.2 cm × 39.9 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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