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Caption: "Refugee Hut," shows four people standing in the doorway of a hut built after the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Mallet Articulated Compound Locomotive," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-131.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Benicia Wharf Disaster," c. 1906, shows a collapsed building on the Benicia wharf, likely due to the April 1906 earthquake that devastated the city of San Francisco.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Limb Show at the Cliff." Shows two women holding up their skirts as they walk into the surf at Ocean Beach, with the Victorian-style Cliff House in the background, San Francisco, c. 1906.
Date: 1906
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