Ruins of Stanford Mansion and Hopkins Art Institute, San Francisco, Cal. – 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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Step back in time with Ruins of Stanford Mansion and Hopkins Art Institute, San Francisco, Cal., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Ruins of Stanford Mansion and Hopkins Art Institute, San Francisco, Cal.
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The Nob Hill ruins shown here are those of the mansion built by railroad magnate Leland Stanford, who died in 1893, and the nearby Hopkins Art Institute, the art school housed in a former mansion on the same hill. Both buildings stood among the grand homes of the city's wealthiest families until the April 1906 earthquake and the fires that followed gutted much of San Francisco. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued many views of American cities and landmarks, sold scenes like this one to a broad public eager to see how far the destruction reached. The bare masonry walls and collapsed interiors make the scale of the loss easy to read.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H77406 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Detroit Publishing Co. No. 019239. |
| Subjects | Stanford, Leland,--1824-1893--Homes & haunts. Ruins--California--San Francisco--1900-1910. Educational facilities--California--San Francisco--1900-1910. Earthquakes--California--San Francisco--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,459 × 1,164 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216483 |
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