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San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906: soldiers being served with supper at Portsmouth Square – Vintage Wall Art

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906: soldiers being served with supper at Portsmouth Square, c1906. — historic photograph
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906: soldiers being served with supper at Portsmouth Square, c1906.. Historic photograph from the San Francisco collection.

(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 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906: soldiers being served with supper at Portsmouth Square, a historic photograph 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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San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906: soldiers being served with supper at Portsmouth Square

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Soldiers queuing for supper in Portsmouth Square set this stereograph apart from the many views of ruined buildings from the same disaster. The square, one of the city's oldest public plazas and near the Chinatown and financial districts, became a gathering point after the earthquake and fire of April 1906, when Army troops were brought in to keep order and relief kitchens fed displaced residents. Stereo cards like this were printed as pairs so that a viewer using a stereoscope saw one three-dimensional scene. The copyright credit to C.L. Wasson comes from an older catalog record and has not been independently verified.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by C.L. Wasson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Ca.--SF--Bldgs.; Ca.--SF--Earthquake...; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,462 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115374

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