Includes: Small meal ticket, printed in blue on card. Reads, "Finance Committee of the Relieve and Red Cross Funds. Meal Ticket, [May 24, '06]." 3x53 cm (1¼x2¼"). * Mounted photograph of a group of workmen on the Chinese Y.M.C.A., SF. Captioned in white in the negative as such, as well as "Portland Construction Co. E.M. Skinner Mgr." 16.5x22 cm (6½x8¾"). * Cabinet card of a San Francisco police officer who volunteered his services during the post-earthquake relief, Capt. George Washington Bennett. * Mounted photograph of a refugee camp. 12.5x17.5 cm (5x7"). * San Francisco and Vicinity Before and After the Big Fire. 20x28 cm (7¾x11") original illustrated wrappers. Rieder-Cardinell Company, 1906. * 18 original photographs of San Francisco directly after the earthquake. Of various sizes, mostly 3¼x5½" or around there. Includes a panoramic photograph, which is comprised of 4 sequential photographs taped together.
A wonderful collection of original photographs and ephemera from San Francisco during its recovery from the 1906 earthquake.