Views of San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., After the 1906 Earthquake and Fire

Processed by Katherine Ruiz.

The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

1997

Views of San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., After the 1906 Earthquake and Fire

BANC PIC 1905.02074-.02118--STER

The Bancroft Library

University of California

Berkeley, California 1997

Finding aid and digital representations of archival materials funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Processed and encoded by:

California Heritage Digital Image Access Project staff in The Bancroft Library and The Library's Electronic Text Unit

Digital images processed by:

The Library Photographic Service

Finding aid completed:

February 1997

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Views of San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., After the

Date: 1906

Earthquake and Fire

Collection Number: BANC PIC 1905.02074-.02118--STER

Extent: 39 photographic prints ; stereograph ; various sizes 43 digital objects

Repository: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is available for use.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Views of San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, BANC PIC 1905.02074-.02118--STER, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Digital Representations Available

Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were copied onto 35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and the Photo CD files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Unknown

Scope and Content

This collection of earthquake and fire views from 1906 consists of 39 photographic prints in stereograph form. Several of the images have duplicate copies, bringing the total number of images to 43. Some photomechanical prints are included. The photographers are unknown. The publisher is Clinton Johnson of Los Angeles. Includes views of the effects of the 1906 earthquake on streets, street car tracks and buildings (San Francisco City Hall, hotels, theaters, police station, etc.), as well as relief lines in Oakland and refugee quarters in Fort Mason in San Francisco. Printed captions on or below the images are reprinted in the container listing.

Container Listing

:1905.02074 Telegraph Hill Burning.

Photographer: Clinton Johnson.

Photographer's number: 4.

Place of publication: Los Angeles, Cal.

Date of publication: c1906.

Photographer's series: San Francisco Earthquake Series.