Author: Sydney Tyler
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
San Francisco's Great Disaster
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Of 1906
Author: Louise Chipley Slavicek
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438118163
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Examines the devastating earthquake that struck San Francisco in 1906 and the resulting fires that destroyed a large section of the city.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438118163
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Examines the devastating earthquake that struck San Francisco in 1906 and the resulting fires that destroyed a large section of the city.
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906
Author: Grove Karl Gilbert
Publisher:
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Category : Building materials
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Building materials
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Disaster by the Bay
Author: Harry Paul Jeffers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A colorful city -- eighth largest in the country -- reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake and then consumed by flames... In this vivid, fast-paced chronicle of what has been called the worst peacetime disaster to ever befall America, veteran journalist and author H. Paul Jeffers provides a gripping account of the nightmarish days in April 1906 when earthquake and fire devastated San Francisco. Drawing on a wide range of eyewitness material, Jeffers follows a variety of individuals as they come to terms with an unthinkable event. Celebrities like Enrico Caruso and John Barrymore; the civil and military authorities who tried to bring order out of the chaos; merchants who struggled heroically to save their shops and goods from the ruins and the flames; the suddenly homeless ordinary men and women who composed messages on scraps of paper and sticks of wood (all of which, incredibly, the postal service actually delivered) to tell of their survival: from all these and many other perspectives Jeffers creates a riveting mosaic of catastrophe and its aftermath. With the one-hundredth anniversary of the quake approaching, this skillful and engrossing narrative will be of keen interest to readers from west coast to east. Book jacket.
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A colorful city -- eighth largest in the country -- reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake and then consumed by flames... In this vivid, fast-paced chronicle of what has been called the worst peacetime disaster to ever befall America, veteran journalist and author H. Paul Jeffers provides a gripping account of the nightmarish days in April 1906 when earthquake and fire devastated San Francisco. Drawing on a wide range of eyewitness material, Jeffers follows a variety of individuals as they come to terms with an unthinkable event. Celebrities like Enrico Caruso and John Barrymore; the civil and military authorities who tried to bring order out of the chaos; merchants who struggled heroically to save their shops and goods from the ruins and the flames; the suddenly homeless ordinary men and women who composed messages on scraps of paper and sticks of wood (all of which, incredibly, the postal service actually delivered) to tell of their survival: from all these and many other perspectives Jeffers creates a riveting mosaic of catastrophe and its aftermath. With the one-hundredth anniversary of the quake approaching, this skillful and engrossing narrative will be of keen interest to readers from west coast to east. Book jacket.
The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906
Author: Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520230606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
"In this well-researched book, Fradkin contends that it was the people of San Francisco, not the forces of nature, who were responsible for the extent of the destruction and death."--"Booklist."
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520230606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
"In this well-researched book, Fradkin contends that it was the people of San Francisco, not the forces of nature, who were responsible for the extent of the destruction and death."--"Booklist."
A History of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco
Author: Frank W. Aitken
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906, and Their Effects on Structures and Structural Materials
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Souvenir of the Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire
Author:
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Category : Commercial buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Commercial buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire
Author: Charles Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire ...
Author: Charles Morris
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago [etc.] The J. C. Winston Company [c1906]
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago [etc.] The J. C. Winston Company [c1906]
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description