Fun making by the earthquake refugees - a temporary home, San Francisco, Cal. – Antique Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Fun making by the earthquake refugees - a temporary home, San Francisco, Cal., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Fun making by the earthquake refugees - a temporary home, San Francisco, Cal.
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The caption and the scene pull against each other: a notice and a row of tents present a camp of earthquake refugees as a place of "fun making," which gives this stereograph its particular irony. Underwood & Underwood, a New York firm that sold stereo views in large numbers, issued the card in 1906, a few months after the earthquake and fire of April 18 left much of San Francisco homeless. Tent camps spread across the city's parks and open spaces during those months, and the light tone of this view may have suited buyers far from the damage.
| Created / published | New York : Underwood & Underwood Publishers, c1906 August 1. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H77336 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8212. Title from item. Exhibited: Documenting Disaster: Photographs of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, 2006. |
| Subjects | San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906. Tents--California--San Francisco--1900-1910. Signs (Notices)--California--San Francisco--1900-1910. Irony--California--San Francisco--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 787 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132940 |
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