Name/Title
Overland Monthly magazine, The San Francisco Fire Number, Vol. 801, 1906Entry/Object ID
1997.229.1Description
ACC. NO. 97.229.1
SUBJECT CATEGORY: VIEWS
DATE OR PERIOD: 1906
OBJECT: MAGAZINE
DESCRIPTION:
SOFT-COVER MAGAZINE, WITH BOLD-PRINTED CAPTION, "OVERLAND MONTHLY."
SIZE: L 9-1/2" X W 6-1/2"
HISTORY OF OBJECT:
MAY 1906 ISSUE OF THE "OVERLAND MONTHLY" MAGAZINE, ENTITLED, "THE SAN FRANCISCO FIRE NUMBER." THE MAGAZINE IS EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED WITH SCENES OF SAN FRANCISCO FOLLOWING THE EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE OF APRIL, 1906. REAR SECTION OF THE MAGAZINE CONTAINS AN ILLUSTRATED ARTICLE ENTITLED, "ALAMEDA, THE MODEL CITY," WRITTEN BY JOHN H HARTOG, SECRETARY OF THE ALAMEDA ADVANCEMENT ASSOCIATION. THE ARTICLE IS ILLUSTRATED WITH A NUMBER OF STREET VIEWS, AS WELL AS CIVIC BUILDINGS, SCHOOLS, AND RESIDENCES. THE VOLUME, NUMBERED "801," WAS GIVEN TO THE MUSEUM IN 1955 AND NOT OFFICIALLY CATALOGED AT THAT TIME.
ACQUIRED FROM:
DORIS HASLETT GOODMAN
DATE: MAY 24, 1997