San Francisco Earthquake Photography
First Edition
The Picture Story of the San Francisco Earthquake, C.C. Pierce and Co. Los Angeles: Geo Rice and Sons, 1906. Soft cover pamphlet of 30 black and white photographs showing the devastation in the immediate aftermath of the 1906 Great San Francisco Earthquake. 10.25" x 6.75" inches. 16 pages. Front cover illustrated with drawing of a city street with the buildings collapsing and fires burning everywhere. Book begins with a written prologue to the photos, excerpted "Even as the first rays of the morning sun tipped the Golden Gate hills their ears were starteld by an unusual sound--a low rumble, chilling in its ominous tone, that seemed to come from the bowels of the earth. Instantly following the ground rose and fell and swayed and shivered with awful emotion, and hell was loosened." Photographs within match the description with images of buildings tipping into streets, streets split into gaping gulfs, and a mass grave in the city square. Textblock is detached from staple to soft covers. Some light foxing on title page and along margins does not affect the images. A moving memorialization of one of the most famous natural disasters of the twentieth century.Item #17888
Price: $285.00
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