City Hall after the Earthquake, San Francisco, Cal. – Vintage Print
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A window into the past: City Hall after the Earthquake, San Francisco, Cal., preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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City Hall after the Earthquake, San Francisco, Cal.
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San Francisco's City Hall stands as a gutted shell in this view, its dome collapsed and its walls broken open after the earthquake of April 1906. The building had been finished only a few years earlier, in 1906 itself, so the ruin was among the most striking losses of the disaster that leveled much of the city. Fires that followed the quake burned for days and destroyed most of the downtown core, and the damage to civic landmarks like this one became a widely circulated symbol of the catastrophe. Pictures of such scenes were often sold as souvenirs, and they remain a key record of how the city looked in the weeks after the shaking stopped.
| Original scan | 2,230 × 1,154 px · prints to 7 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 09828u |
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