Track | Section | Length |
01 | 01 - Items from the Call-Chronicle-Examiner April 19 1906 | 28:30 |
02 | 02 - Items from the Call-Chronicle-Examiner April 19 1906 | 17:57 |
03 | 03 - Items from the Call-Chronicle-Examiner April 19 1906 | 21:33 |
04 | 04 - Items from the Call April 21 1906 | 26:31 |
05 | 05 - Items from the Call April 21 1906 | 24:42 |
06 | 06 - Items from the Call April 21 1906 | 31:11 |
07 | 07 - Items from the Call April 22 1906 | 43:00 |
08 | 08 - Items from the Call April 22 1906 | 44:15 |
09 | 09 - Items from the Call April 22 1906 | 34:57 |
10 | 10 - Items from the Call April 22 1906 | 55:24 |
Notes& Credits
Running Time: 5 hours 28 minutes
Read by: Maria Kaspar
Book Coordinator: Maria Kaspar
Meta Coordinator: Ann Boulais
Proof Listener: Ann Boulais
Artwork
Cover: San Francisco Earthquake of 1906: Ruins in vicinity of Post and Grant Avenue. Looking northeast. April 1906. Photographer D. H. Chadwick.
Inset: Front page of the joint edition published by The Call, The Chronicle and The Examiner on April 19, 1906.
Inset: Masthead from The Call from headline in the San Francisco Call, Nov. 22, 1896.
Inset: Masthead from TheSan Francisco Chronicle cover, April 22, 1906
Inset: Masthead from the front page of The San Francisco Examiner, June 19, 1910
Insert: Arnold Genthe's 1906 picture from Sacramento Street.
Recordings
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At 5:12 am on the morning of April 18, 1906 an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.8 struck the coast of Northern California. Shaking was felt from Eureka in the north all the way to the Salinas Valley in the south. In the city of San Francisco buildings collapsed and fires broke out, burning for several days. The natural disaster resulted in approximately 3,000 deaths and the destruction of over 80% of the city. During the peak of the disaster newspaper reporters from the major papers made a herculean effort to keep the public informed even as their offices and presses were destroyed and the city burned all around. The papers located printing presses across the bay and continued to publish amid the pandemonium. The accounts read here from the articles published from April 19 to April 22 give a remarkable first-hand account of the experience of living through one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike the United States. The first day (April 19) features articles from reporters from all three of the major dailies, who collaborated to get out the word.
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0701236969153 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0687700169888 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Case |
Author | San Francisco Newspapers - The Call, The Chronicle and The Examiner |
Year | 1906 |
Recording | |
Read by | Maria Kaspar |
Length | 5 hours and 28 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo |
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
- Author: San Francisco Newspapers
- Product Code: DB-1197
- Availability: In Stock
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