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After the earthquake - frame houses tumbled from their foundations, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. – Historic Reproduction

After the earthquake - frame houses tumbled from their foundations, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A., Chicago : H.C. White Co., c1907 July 29. — historic photograph
After the earthquake - frame houses tumbled from their foundations, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A., Chicago : H.C. White Co., c1907 July 29.. 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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Few pictures show the earthquake's effect on ordinary wood-frame houses as plainly as this stereograph, where the buildings have shifted and tumbled off their foundations. The earthquake of April 18, 1906, shook San Francisco hard, and fires that followed destroyed much of the city, but many homes were wrecked by the shaking alone, since their light frames were often not bolted to the footings beneath them. H.C. White Co. published the card and registered its copyright in July 1907, and it was meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, which gave the ruined rooflines a sense of depth.

Created / publishedChicago : H.C. White Co., c1907 July 29.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH97373 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8774. Title from item. Copyright July 29, 1907 by H.C. White Co. Exhibited: Documenting Disaster: Photographs of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, 2006.
SubjectsSan Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906. Disasters--California--San Francisco--1900-1910. Houses--California--San Francisco--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,348 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124512

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