[Frontpage of the San Francisco Call-Chronicle-Examiner, April 19, 1906, with headline Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco in Ruins"]" – Vintage Print
![[Frontpage of the San Francisco Call-Chronicle-Examiner, April 19, 1906, with headline Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco in Ruins"]", 1906 — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/12/124e52780606-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with [Frontpage of the San Francisco Call-Chronicle-Examiner, April 19, 1906, with headline Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco in Ruins"]", a historic print rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Frontpage of the San Francisco Call-Chronicle-Examiner, April 19, 1906, with headline Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco in Ruins"]"
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Few front pages record the first news of a disaster as directly as this one, whose headline, "Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco in Ruins," runs across the April 19, 1906 edition. The great earthquake struck early on April 18, and the fires that followed burned for several days, destroying much of the city's business district and thousands of homes. Newspapers printed in the aftermath often worked under makeshift conditions, and the blunt wording reflects how quickly editors had to convey the scale of the loss.
| Created / published | 1906 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Newspapers; Disasters. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,132 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147044 |
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