Clearing away the debris, California St., San Francisco, Cal. – 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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Clearing away the debris, California St., San Francisco, Cal. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Clearing away the debris, California St., San Francisco, Cal.
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The debris on California Street is the detail that sets this view apart from the many San Francisco pictures of the 1906 earthquake and fire. Workers and wagons are shown clearing rubble from the street in the weeks after the disaster, when the city was still digging out from the damage. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm known for its color and black-and-white views of American places, sold such scenes to the public as records of the event. Because the caption card is unverified, the exact date and crew shown here are uncertain, but the scene reflects the wider cleanup that followed the quake and fire of April 1906.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 019230. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,205 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-144051 |
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