Picture No | 10223004 |
Date | 1906 |
Description | The San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906 |
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Photograph of a damaged house, crooked and twisted, displaying the effects of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. A third of the city was destroyed either by the quake or the subsequent fires with 3000 people losing their lives and 300,000 left homeless.
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Source | The Sphere. 1906. . |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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