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Start Over You searched for: Repository University of Michigan William L. Clements Library ✖ Remove constraint Repository: University of Michigan William L. Clements Library Level Collection ✖ Remove constraint Level: Collection Names Anonymous ✖ Remove constraint Names: Anonymous Subjects San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906. ✖ Remove constraint Subjects: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906. Formats Gelatin silver prints. ✖ Remove constraint Formats: Gelatin silver prints. Date range Unknown ✖ Remove constraint Date range: UnknownSearch Results
48 photographs in 1 album.
The San Francisco Earthquake photograph album contains 48 photographs showing the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. The album (27 x 18 cm) has pebbled black cloth covers and includes a laid in handwritten table of contents. Images include views of ruins of City Hall, the Crosby Building, the Granada Hotel, and Grace Church; temporary tent and tin-shack housing; a tent camp in Golden Gate Park; people cooking on the street using makeshift stoves; views showing the devastation of Russian Hill, North Beach, Chinatown, and Telegraph Hill; a group of men playing checkers in the street; a hospital tent; a crowd lining up in front of a tent with the sign, "W.C.T.U. Free Reading Room"; a young African American girl sitting beside a tent with an infant in a box beside her; and an African American man sitting in a tin shack with the sign, "Show Maker."