Edge of burned district, corner of Franklin and Sacramento Streets, San Francisco, Calif. – Antique Photo Print
(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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This historic photograph of Edge of burned district, corner of Franklin and Sacramento Streets, San Francisco, Calif. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Edge of burned district, corner of Franklin and Sacramento Streets, San Francisco, Calif.
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This view, titled for the edge of a burned district at Franklin and Sacramento Streets, shows the line where wrecked buildings give way to those still standing in San Francisco after the April 1906 earthquake and fire. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced a large catalog of American scenes sold as prints and souvenirs, made the photograph. The record's date and caption details are old and not fully verified, but the scene matches the devastation that consumed much of the city in the days after the quake. It is worth noticing how abruptly the damage ends within the frame, a reminder of how unevenly the fires spread across the city.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 1924; no orig. negatives. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: California--San Francisco--Earthquakes; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,209 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139342 |
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