Earthquake and fire, San Francisco, Calif.: Collapsed Valencia St. Hotel; people dipping water from street from broken water main; most of shock was here - ground settled 12 feet – Vintage 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 rare historic photograph captures Earthquake and fire, San Francisco, Calif.: Collapsed Valencia St. Hotel; people dipping water from street from broken water main; most of shock was here - ground settled 12 feet in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Earthquake and fire, San Francisco, Calif.: Collapsed Valencia St. Hotel; people dipping water from street from broken water main; most of shock was here - ground settled 12 feet
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A collapsed hotel on Valencia Street, with people dipping water from the street where a water main had burst, sets this print apart from the many views of ruin in the 1906 series. The caption states that most of the shaking was centered here and that the ground settled about 12 feet, a contemporary account worth reading as a description rather than a surveyed measurement. The April 18 earthquake broke the city's water mains, and with hydrants dry, the fires that followed burned for days. Scenes like this one show how residents improvised water supplies in the disaster's first hours and days.
| Created / published | 1906 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ca.--SF--Earthquake; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,081 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131797 |
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