SAN FRANCISCO IN RUINS: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF EIGHT SCORE PHOTO-VIEWS OF THE EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS (20th Century Library) - Softcover

Allison, A. M.

9781549761560: SAN FRANCISCO IN RUINS: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF EIGHT SCORE PHOTO-VIEWS OF THE EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS (20th Century Library)

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ISBN 10: 1549761560 ISBN 13: 9781549761560

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

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San Francisco in Ruins documents the horror of the 1906 devastating earthquake and subsequent fire. The San Francisco earthquake is the first natural disaster to be thoroughly photographed, as it occurred. This is how author A.M. Allison described what the earthquake and fire left behind: “In three days, which seemed only as so many hours, there faded out of existence noble business blocks, grand and imposing structures, beautiful and superb residences the homes of the Argonauts, the sea kings, mining barons and merchant princes, together with the marts and dwellings of those who toil and delve and go down to the sea in ships, completely desolating and razing by fire three-fourths of this once beautiful metropolis of the whole Pacific Coast on either the northern or southern continents.” The photographs in San Francisco in Ruins are the work of James D. Givens (1863-1939). Givens served as the civilian “post photographer” for the army. San Francisco in Ruins records the catastrophic 1906 earthquake and fire, frame by frame, from the ruins to the ashes to the refugee camps.

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