Historically Significant Collection of Two Original Autograph Letters Signed, With an Eyewitness Account of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Compiled Hours and Days After the Event, and Mentioning “The Whole Town is Burning Up and There is No Water,” a Side of Van Ness Avenue Being “Burned Clear to the Water Front,” and Being “Broke” After Buying “All the Bread [They] Could Find the Morning of the Quake”. San Francisco, 17 & 21 April 1906.
[Browning, Frank Elisha] (1866-1917). Historically Significant Album with ca. 189 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs from the Estate of Alameda’ First City Clerk Frank E. Browning, Showing Alameda Officials, Destruction of San Francisco after the 1906 Earthquake, a Military Parade San Francisco, a Service of a “Masonic lodge, Hopi Point, Grand Canyon – 1913,” Browning, his Family and Friends during Car Trips around California and Arizona, Group Portraits from a Gathering in Truckee, &c.; With 10 Printed Postcards Showing the Exterior and Interior of the Elks’ Club in Alameda. Ca. 1900s - 1910s.