A most dreadful earthquake : a first-hand account of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, with glimpses into the lives of the Phillips-Jones letter writers / Dorothy Fowler.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oakland, Calif. : California Genealogical Society, [2006]Copyright date: copyright 2006Description: xiv, 176 p. : ill., maps, ports., geneal. tables ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- volume
- 0967240972 (pbk.)
- 9780967240978 (pbk.)
- Jones, George W. (George Westinghouse), 1857-1925 -- Correspondence
- Jones, Sarah E. Phillips (Sarah Elizabeth Phillips), 1875-1942 -- Correspondence
- Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
- Fires -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography
- 979.4/61051092
- F869.S357 F68 2006
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Books | Main Library General Circulation | 979.4'61 F785 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3BPSU00014876. |
Excerpts of letters written to George W. Jones of Schenectady, New York, mostly by Sarah E. Phillips of San Francisco, California, between Apr. 18, 1906 and July 20, 1906.
Introduction -- San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fire : a view from the Phillips-Jones letters -- Lives of the letter writers -- A summing up.
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