Jefferson Square camps, after the San Francisco earthquake and fire – Historic 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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Jefferson Square camps, after the San Francisco earthquake and fire
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Jefferson Square, a park in San Francisco's Western Addition, became a refuge for families left homeless when the 1906 earthquake and fire destroyed much of the city. The park is named for Thomas Jefferson, though the scene shows no one in particular, only the tents and makeshift shelters that filled open public grounds as relief camps. The view was issued by the Pillsbury Picture Co., and its old caption card files it under refugees and disasters. Those catalog notes are not fully verified, so the picture is best read as a general record of how the city's residents lived in the weeks after the disaster.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo copyrighted by the Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 35. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Calif.--S.F.--Earthquake...; Refugees; Disasters; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,084 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-137877 |
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