California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the twenty million dollar City Hall Building, 1906

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San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the twenty million dollar City Hall Building, 1906

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Photograph of San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the twenty million dollar City Hall Building, 1906. A wide street lies in the foreground with the damaged City Hall Building at its end. The left side has lost large portions of its exterior walls and roof and the tall dome at its center has been stripped of its exterior wall. The buildings on the left and right sides of the street have been completely destroyed leaving piles of debris in their places. Men walk toward City Hall on the right side of the road.

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Title San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the twenty million dollar City Hall Building, 1906

Subject buildings (adlf), buildings (lcsh), Earthquakes (lcsh), Fires (lcsh), Municipal government (lcsh), San Francisco -- Earthquake (1906) -- #4 (Individual Buildings) (file heading), San Francisco County -- San Francisco Earthquake -- Individual buildings (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 ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

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

Date Created 1906

Creator Preston (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-m9800

Identifier 43356 (accession number), CHS-43356 (call number), CHS-43356 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10042 (legacy record id), chs-m9800 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-9938 (legacy record id), USC (project), 19 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10042

Unique identifier UC140132

Legacy Identifier CHS-43356.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 22.0 in × 11.7 in at 300dpi
55.9 cm × 29.8 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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