California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

San Francisco earthquake damage, from Nob Hill toward Telegraph Hill, 1906

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San Francisco earthquake damage, from Nob Hill toward Telegraph Hill, 1906

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Photograph of a panoramic view of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake and fire, viewed from Nob Hill toward Telegraph Hill, 1906. Three women in dark dresses, hats and coats walk under the fallen electrical lines and over the crumbled bricks on the street in the foreground. Only one wall still stands complete of a large building on the right. Similar damage can be seen through the rest of the city to the top of the hill in the background on the left.; Copyright 1906, by R. Cardinell & Co., Oakland, Calif.

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Title San Francisco earthquake damage, from Nob Hill toward Telegraph Hill, 1906

Subject cities (adlf), Earthquakes (lcsh), Fires (lcsh), San Francisco -- Earthquake (1906) -- #1 (Panoramas) (file heading), San Francisco County -- San Francisco Earthquake -- Panoramas (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 ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

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

Date Created 1906

Creator R.C. & Co. (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9752

Identifier 43323 (accession number), CHS-43323 (call number), CHS-43323 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9995 (legacy record id), chs-m9752 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-9891 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9995

Unique identifier UC139656

Legacy Identifier CHS-43323.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.1 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
46.0 cm × 32.4 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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