San Francisco Earthquake, April 18, 1906: Post Office [tent] in Hamilton Square refugee camp – Historic Reproduction
![San Francisco Earthquake, April 18, 1906: Post Office [tent] in Hamilton Square refugee camp, c1906. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b9/b95d4827ec21-L.webp)
(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 images capture their era like this historic photograph of San Francisco Earthquake, April 18, 1906: Post Office [tent] in Hamilton Square refugee camp. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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San Francisco Earthquake, April 18, 1906: Post Office [tent] in Hamilton Square refugee camp
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A tent post office in the Hamilton Square refugee camp shows how the city kept basic services running after the April 18, 1906 earthquake and fire. Fires that followed the quake destroyed much of San Francisco, leaving tens of thousands homeless, and parks and open lots filled with tents and temporary shelters. Mail service was one way to reconnect residents with family and business outside the city. This image is a stereograph, a card printed as a pair of slightly offset photographs that, viewed through a stereoscope, appeared as a single three-dimensional scene. The card is credited to C.H. Graves, though the record's details are unverified.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by C.H. Graves; Art Nouveau (Platino) Stereograph. No. 5341. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ca.--SF--Earth.; Photog. I.; Post offices; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 804 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132923 |
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