Wikimedia Commons

File:The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror (1906) (14792888443).jpg

Original file ‎(2,272 × 3,280 pixels, file size: 2.16 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary edit

Description
English:

Identifier: historyofsanfra00bank (find matches)
Title: The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Banks, Charles Eugene, 1852-1932 Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939
Subjects: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 Volcanoes Fires
Publisher: (Chicago? Ill. : s.n.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
E. H. Sothern, as Hamlet. E. S. Willard. Sarah Bernhardt as she appeared at the great tent benefit.Julia Marlowe. Sarah Bernhardt as Adrienne Lecouvre. These great artists appeared at the benefit for the San Francisco peoplein the famous Bernhardt Tent in which she starred through Texas. Theperformance netted $15,605.
Text Appearing After Image:
ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS. Rain of ashes on the Bay of Naples where the darkness became sointense that ships could not navigate in safety in broad day. Photographtaken April 6, 1906. THE SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER 379 been incessant. Some who counted claimed to haverecorded as many as 1,000 shakes in a single day!They ceased with the outbreak of the lava, as is theusual case. On the 7th of April came the crowning climax ofthe catastrophe—the holocaust of fire and rock. From the story of Captain Brown, a retired whaler,whose ranch was exactly in the path of the awful riverof death, is taken the following graphic account of theeruption: My beautiful ranch-, with hundreds of fine horses,cattle and goats, was wiped out in a very few minutes.I was a rich man at supper time, but thirty minuteslater, as poor as Jobs turkey. Our house was prettywell shaken up, and, like all the rest of the folks inKa-u, we were living in a tent close to it. About duskI heard a terrible buzzing up on Mauna Loa. Itsou

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Date
Source

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14792888443/

Author

Banks, Charles Eugene, 1852-1932;

Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.
Flickr tags
InfoField
  • bookid:historyofsanfra00bank
  • bookyear:1906
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Banks__Charles_Eugene__1852_1932
  • bookauthor:Read__Opie_Percival__1852_1939
  • booksubject:San_Francisco_Earthquake_and_Fire__Calif___1906
  • booksubject:Volcanoes
  • booksubject:Fires
  • bookpublisher:_Chicago__Ill____s_n__
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
  • booksponsor:The_Library_of_Congress
  • bookleafnumber:383
  • bookcollection:library_of_congress
  • bookcollection:americana
Flickr posted date
InfoField
29 July 2014


Licensing edit

This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
  1. The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
  2. The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
  3. The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
  4. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.

More information can be found at https://flickr.com/commons/usage/.

Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by Internet Archive Book Images at https://flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14792888443. It was reviewed on 27 September 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions.

27 September 2015

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current15:49, 27 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 15:49, 27 September 20152,272 × 3,280 (2.16 MB)Fæ (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{information |description={{en|1=<br> '''Identifier''': historyofsanfra00bank ([https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=Search&search=insource%3A%2Fhistoryofsanfra00bank%2F find...

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:The_history_of_the_San_Francisco_disaster_and_Mount_Vesuvius_horror_(1906)_(14792888443).jpg&oldid=608839510"