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The earth shook, the sky burned : a photographic record of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire

Author: William Bronson
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Chronicle Books, 2006.
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : 100th anniversary edView all editions and formats
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Illustrated with more than four hundred on-the-scene photographs, this volume tells the dramatic story of the four days of upheaval and destruction that swept the city of San Francisco when a violent  Read more...

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Genre/Form: History
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William Bronson
ISBN: 0811850471 9780811850476
OCLC Number: 65223734
Notes: Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1959.
Includes index.
Description: 192 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Contents: Prologue: April 17, 1906 --
Earth in agony --
Sky on fire --
The long day: April 19-21 --
"The damndest finest ruins" --
Life goes on --
Swath of destruction --
Rocks and history --
From the ashes --
Epilogue: Small scars and memories.
Responsibility: by William Bronson.

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