California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Men serving coffee to refugees of the San Francisco earthquake and fire, April 18, 1906

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Men serving coffee to refugees of the San Francisco earthquake and fire, April 18, 1906

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Photograph of men serving coffee to refugees of the San Francisco earthquake and fire, April 18, 1906. A group of several men is at center, handling coffee in large steaming vats with ladles. Many people are standing around the men in the middle, separated from them by crude wooden barriers made from barrels. Inside, near the pots of coffee, several large sacks can be seen. The walls of several buildings can be seen in the background, and the cobblestone street is visible in the foreground.

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Title Men serving coffee to refugees of the San Francisco earthquake and fire, April 18, 1906

Creator Shaw and Shaw (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1906-04-18

Subject buildings (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Coffee (lcsh), Earthquakes (lcsh), Fires (lcsh), Food (lcsh), Refugees (lcsh), San Francisco -- Earthquake (1906) -- #5 (Aftermath) (file heading), San Francisco County -- San Francisco Earthquake -- Aftermath (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Francisco (city or populated place), San Francisco (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1906-04-18

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9830

Identifier 14419 (accession number), CHS-14419 (call number), CHS-14419 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10071 (legacy record id), chs-m9830 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-9968 (legacy record id), 1-48- (microfiche number), USC (project), 31 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10071

Unique identifier UC139654

Legacy Identifier CHS-14419.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.7 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
47.6 cm × 34.1 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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