Modern San Francisco: And the Men of To-Day 1905-1906

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An uncommon black-and-white photographic record of San Francisco's major buildings just prior to the devastating earthquake of April 1906. Many of the photos have marginal comments by a former owner named Fowler, who seems to have been a San Francisco resident with extensive knowledge of the city and and its building practices. For example, on the photo of the flat-iron Crocker Building, which survived the quake but was demolished in 1968, he identifies sections of "Terra Cotta in color to match brickwork below," "Roman Pressed Brick," and "Granite," calling it "A beautiful and successful building." Bound in paper boards with a dust jacket. The bottom half of the textblock has separated from the spine, and the dust jacket is tape-repaired along the entire spine. Two stamps to the front panel of the dust jacket, and several more "Bakersfield Club, Reading Room" stamps on interior pages. The dust jacket is chipped and edgeworn; Mylar protected. N° de ref. del artículo 014264

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