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Removing debris at Third, Kearney and Market Sts., San Francisco, Cal. – Historic Reproduction

Removing debris at Third, Kearney and Market Sts., San Francisco, Cal., c1906. — historic photograph
Removing debris at Third, Kearney and Market Sts., San Francisco, Cal., c1906.. Historic photograph from the San Francisco 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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A window into the past: Removing debris at Third, Kearney and Market Sts., San Francisco, Cal., 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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Few corners of downtown San Francisco were more central than the junction of Third, Kearney and Market Streets, and this view shows it in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fire, with debris being cleared from the roadway. In the weeks after the April 18 quake, crews worked by hand and with carts and wagons to haul away brick, timber and twisted metal, a slow job that kept the commercial core largely unusable for months. The picture was published by the Detroit Publishing Co., a firm that sold many scenic and documentary views of American cities to a national market. Its catalog number, 09359, marks it as one of the company's photographs of the disaster's aftermath.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1910.
NotesCopyright by Detroit Publishing Co. No. 09359.
SubjectsStreets--California--San Francisco--1900-1910. Earthquakes--California--San Francisco--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,280 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-177914

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