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San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of buildings on the California Street hill from Sansome Street, 1906
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San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of buildings on the California Street hill from Sansome Street, 1906
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Description
Photograph of San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of buildings on the California Street hill from Sansome Street, 1906. Slabs of wood from the damaged building on the right lie across the foreground. Bricks lie in front of the crumbling building on the left. Several people along with a horse-drawn carriage move down the street at center towards the damaged buildings in the background. The new Merchants Exchange Building is still standing.; Copyrighted and published by J.D. Cardinell, Oakland, Calif, 1906.
Asset Metadata
Title
San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of buildings on the California Street hill from Sansome Street, 1906
Creator
Cardinell, J.D. (photographer), Evans, Fred C. (photographer), Preston Photo (photographer)
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Date Created
1906
Subject
buildings
(lcsh),
Carriages and carts
(lcsh),
Earthquakes
(lcsh),
Fires
(lcsh),
roadways
(adlf),
San Francisco -- Earthquake (1906) -- #7
(file heading),
San Francisco County -- San Francisco Earthquake -- Street scenes
(file heading),
Streets
(lcsh),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
California Street
(roadway),
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.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9850
Identifier
43371 (
accession number
), CHS-43371 (
call number
), CHS-43371 (
filename
), chs-m15009 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-10091 (
legacy record id
), chs-m9850 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-9988 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
10091
Unique identifier
UC140152
Legacy Identifier
CHS-43371.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.4 in × 11.4 in at 300dpi
41.8 cm × 28.9 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
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
Linked assets
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
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