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Oil tanks [burning] at Meggs Wharf – Antique Wall Art

Oil tanks [burning] at Meggs Wharf, c1906. — historic photograph
Oil tanks [burning] at Meggs Wharf, c1906.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 Oil tanks [burning] at Meggs Wharf, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Oil tanks [burning] at Meggs Wharf

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Smoke rises from the oil tanks at Meggs Wharf, a waterfront site in San Francisco that the caption card links to the city's fires and earthquakes. The record dates the picture to about 1906, which fits the aftermath of the April 1906 earthquake, when broken gas and oil lines fed fires that burned across the city for several days. Pillsbury Picture Co. issued the view as a commercial photograph, so it reflects how the disaster was packaged and sold to a national audience. The date and details come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 120. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Oil industry; Fires...--Ca.--San Francisco; Earthquakes; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan895 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140234

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