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Our San Francisco (1906 earthquake) 1
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Our San Francisco (1906 earthquake) 1

A photograph of the destruction caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, for the article "Our San Francisco," by James Hopper in Everybody's Magazine, June 1906 (3 months after the fire). The article was an eyewitness report of the earthquake by the author who was working for the Call and staying in the Neptune Hotel (also destroyed) in the city. Caption: The City Hall, cost, $6,0000,000. Picture taken after earthquake. Smoke in the distance is that of the Hayes valley fire (see article), one of the main fires that cleaned the whole city.

Date
1906
Photographer / author
photographer (probably from the Call in San Francisco.
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
photograph
Original size
674 × 484 pixels

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Reason: its US copyright has expired (published before 1931).

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"Our San Francisco (1906 earthquake) 1" (1906). photographer (probably from the Call in San Francisco., via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Our_San_Francisco_(1906_earthquake)_1.jpg

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