San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Cattle killed by falling walls – Vintage 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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A window into the past: San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Cattle killed by falling walls, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Cattle killed by falling walls
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Dead cattle lie among fallen masonry in this stereograph, a reminder that the 1906 San Francisco earthquake of April 18 killed livestock as well as people. Many of the city's brick walls and buildings collapsed in the shaking, and the fires that followed burned much of the city over the next several days. Stereo cards like this one were sold in large numbers and viewed through a stereoscope, so the scene reached readers as a near three-dimensional view of the damage. The catalog record notes a copyright held by Tom M. Phillips, though its caption details are unverified and should be read with that in mind.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Tom M. Phillips. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Army, US; Barbers...; Photog. I.; Ca.--S- F- Earth.; Billboards; Refugees; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 806 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132947 |
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