California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Demolition of the Grand Central Hotel on the corner of Third Street and Mission Street in San Francisco, 1906

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Demolition of the Grand Central Hotel on the corner of Third Street and Mission Street in San Francisco, 1906

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Photograph of the demolition of the Grand Central Hotel on the corner of Third Street and Mission Street in San Francisco, 1906. The hotel is crashing to the ground in a cloud of dust in the distance at center. In the foreground, large piles of rubble and burned-out buildings are visible. A narrow dirt road is in the foreground at right. In the background at left, a tall scaffold is visible over the skyline. The top of the Call Building can be seen behind a tall rectangular building at center.

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Title Demolition of the Grand Central Hotel on the corner of Third Street and Mission Street in San Francisco, 1906

Subject buildings (adlf), Earthquakes (lcsh), Fires (lcsh), Grand Central Hotel (subject), San Francisco -- Earthquake (1906) -- #2 (file heading), San Francisco County -- San Francisco Earthquake -- Fires (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 3rd Street & Mission Street (roadway), California (states), San Francisco (city or populated place), San Francisco (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1906

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

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

Date Created 1906

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-m9764

Identifier 14516 (accession number), CHS-14516 (call number), CHS-14516 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10007 (legacy record id), chs-m9764 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-9903 (legacy record id), 1-48- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10007

Unique identifier UC139765

Legacy Identifier CHS-14516.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.8 in × 15.8 in at 300dpi
50.4 cm × 40.1 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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