California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

San Francisco earthquake damage, looking up Powell Street, 1906

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San Francisco earthquake damage, looking up Powell Street, 1906

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Photograph of San Francisco earthquake damage, looking up Powell Street at the remains of the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in the foreground and the new Fairmount Hotel at the top of Nob Hill, 1906. Tracks stripe the dusty road which extends up the hill from the left foreground to the right distance. Wooden posts stand in a sea of rubble where the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art stood in the foreground. Burn marks spot the large, lightly-colored Fairmount Hotel at the top of the hill at center.; Copyrighted and published by J.D. Cardinell, Oakland, Calif, 1906.

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Title San Francisco earthquake damage, looking up Powell Street, 1906

Subject Art museums (lcsh), buildings (adlf), buildings (lcsh), Earthquakes (lcsh), Fairmount Hotel (subject), Fires (lcsh), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (subject), San Francisco -- Earthquake (1906) -- #7 (file heading), San Francisco County -- San Francisco Earthquake -- Street scenes (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags 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)

Date Created 1906

Creator Cardinell, J.D. (photographer), Preston Photo (photographer)

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9847

Identifier 43374 (accession number), CHS-43374 (call number), CHS-43374 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10088 (legacy record id), chs-m9847 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-9985 (legacy record id), USC (project), 18 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10088

Unique identifier UC140157

Legacy Identifier CHS-43374.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.4 in × 11.1 in at 300dpi
41.8 cm × 28.3 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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