Collection Summary
Information for Researchers
Administrative Information
Scope and Content
Collection Summary
Collection Title: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Stereographs
Date: 1906
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1985.072--STER
Extent:
37 stereographs, 12 x 18 cm or smaller.
37 digital objects
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open 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], San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Stereographs, 1906, BANC PIC 1985.072--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
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Stereographs collection contains 37 stereographic prints, mostly published by Tom M.
Phillips in 1906. The collection documents the devastation caused by the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. Pictured
are scenes along Market, Mission, California, and Sutter Streets, and Golden Gate and Van Ness Avenues. Among the notable
buildings pictured are City Hall, the St. Francis Hotel, the Emporium Building, the Wells-Fargo Building, Claus Spreckel's
residence, St. Dominic's Church, and the Hibernia Bank. Also pictured are refugee camps, as well as the Ferry Building prior
to the disaster.
The collection also includes a stereograph of Donner Lake taken circa 1865 by Alfred A. Hart, and two stereographs of tourists
at Devil's Canyon, Geyser Springs, Sonoma County, taken by Andrew Price circa 1880.
The stereographs are numbered according to the photographer's number present on each stereograph. Therefore there are many
gaps in the numbering sequence.