Mayor Schmitz on his rounds of untiring labors to relieve his stricken city, San Francisco, Calif. – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Mayor Schmitz on his rounds of untiring labors to relieve his stricken city, San Francisco, Calif., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Mayor Schmitz on his rounds of untiring labors to relieve his stricken city, San Francisco, Calif.
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Mayor Eugene Schmitz is the focus of this stereograph, shown making his rounds through a city still reeling from the earthquake of April 18, 1906. The caption praises his "untiring labors" to relieve San Francisco, and the automobile tracing on the card suggests he moved through the damaged streets by motor car. Fires that followed the quake burned much of the city over the next several days, leaving many thousands homeless, so the mayor's visible presence became a symbol of civic response. Underwood & Underwood, a firm known for stereo views, issued the card for home viewers eager for news of the disaster.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Copyright for stereo by Underwood & Underwood (no. 8236) This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Automobiles--1906; California-- San Francisco-- Earhtquakes...; BI; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,383 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139340 |
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