The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned

A Photographic Record of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Photography, Pictorials, History, Americas, United States
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Author: William Bronson ISBN: 9781452133720
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC Publication: May 20, 2014
Imprint: Chronicle Books LLC Language: English
Author: William Bronson
ISBN: 9781452133720
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Publication: May 20, 2014
Imprint: Chronicle Books LLC
Language: English

The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned has mesmerized San Francisco tourists and residents for decades. Illustrated with more than four hundred on-the-scene photographs, this definitive book tells the dramatic story of the four days of upheaval and destruction that swept the city when a violent earth tremor rocked the land, succeeded rapidly by a devastating fire that destroyed nearly thirty thousand buildings and left over a quarter million people homeless. Now available as a digital book, The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned is a San Francisco classic, revealing what really happened that April morning over a century ago, when the face of the city was changed forever.

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The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned has mesmerized San Francisco tourists and residents for decades. Illustrated with more than four hundred on-the-scene photographs, this definitive book tells the dramatic story of the four days of upheaval and destruction that swept the city when a violent earth tremor rocked the land, succeeded rapidly by a devastating fire that destroyed nearly thirty thousand buildings and left over a quarter million people homeless. Now available as a digital book, The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned is a San Francisco classic, revealing what really happened that April morning over a century ago, when the face of the city was changed forever.

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