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    History's Anteroom: Photography in San Francisco 1906-1909

    History's Anteroom: Photography in San Francisco 1906-1909


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    • Format: Trade Paperback
    • pages
    • Publisher: William Stout Publishers
    • Published: January 2011
    • ISBN-10: 0981966756
    • ISBN-13: 9780981966755

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    History's Anteroom is a collection of vintage photographs made in San Francisco, California, during the years 1906-1909. In April 1906 the San Francisco Bay Area fell victim to a powerful earthquake, and in October 1909 the city hosted a 'regional rebirth' with a celebration named the Portola Festival. The photographs and illustrations reproduced here - some only rarely shown or seen now for the first time - have been given a close reading and placed within the specific historical context by the authors. The result is a journey back into the early history of the twentieth century and its first great urban catastrophe.
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