1906 illustrated newspaper w Photos REBUILDING SAN FRANCISCO afterTHE EARTHQUAKE

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1906 illustrated newspaper with Photos & drawings of REBUILDING SAN FRANCISCO after THE 1906 EARTHQUAKE -
inv # Tabloid 3E-229
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL weekly illustrated NEWSPAPER, the
Illustrated London News
(ENGLAND) dated Sept 15, 1906.
This weekly newspaper is printed on glossy paper and has MANY MANY illustrations (and lots of text as well) with photos, drawings, and artwork. The Illustrated London News was way ahead of its time in interoducing new complex subjects to the public's attention and explaining those subjects in an understandable way (often with images and graphics in the pre-digital age).
This issue of the Illustrated London News contains 2 inside pages of
photos of SAN FRANCISCO just after the SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE disaster, as well as drawings and photos of the plans for rebuilding of the city
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The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). High intensity shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to the Salinas Valley, an agricultural region to the south of the San Francisco Bay Area. Devastating fires soon broke out in the city and lasted for several days. Thousands of homes were dismantled. As a result, up to 3,000 people died and over 80% of the city of San Francisco was destroyed. The events are remembered as one of the worst and deadliest earthquakes in the history of the United States. The death toll remains the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history and high in the lists of American disasters.
Property losses from the disaster have been estimated to be more than 0 million in 1906 dollars. This is equivalent to .2 billion in 2018 dollars. An insurance industry source tallies insured losses at 5 million, the equivalent to .55 billion in 2018 dollars.
Political and business leaders strongly downplayed the effects of the earthquake, fearing loss of outside investment in the city which was badly needed to rebuild. In his first public statement, California governor George Pardee emphasized the need to rebuild quickly: "This is not the first time that San Francisco has been destroyed by fire, I have not the slightest doubt that the City by the Golden Gate will be speedily rebuilt, and will, almost before we know it, resume her former great activity". The earthquake itself is not even mentioned in the statement. Fatality and monetary damage estimates were manipulated.
Almost immediately after the quake (and even during the disaster), planning and reconstruction plans were hatched to quickly rebuild the city. Rebuilding funds were immediately tied up by the fact that virtually all the major banks had been sites of the conflagration, requiring a lengthy wait of seven-to-ten days before their fire-proof vaults could cool sufficiently to be safely opened. The Bank of Italy had evacuated its funds and was able to provide liquidity in the immediate aftermath. Its president also immediately chartered and financed the sending of two ships to return with shiploads of lumber from Washington and Oregon mills which provided the initial reconstruction materials and surge. In 1929, Bank of Italy was renamed and is now known as Bank of America.
The Illustrated London News appeared first on Saturday 14 May 1842, as the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine / weekly newspaper. Photographic and printing techniques were advancing in the later years of the 19th century, and The Illustrated London News began to introduce photos as well as artwork into its depictions of weekly events. From about 1890 The Illustrated London News made increasing use of photography. The tradition of graphic illustrations continued however until the end of World War I. Often rough sketches of distant events with handwritten explanations were supplied by observers and then worked on by artists in London to produce polished end-products for publication. This was particularly the case where popular subjects such as colonial or foreign military campaigns did not lend themselves to clear illustration using the limited camera technology of the period. By the 1920s and 1930s, the pictures which dominated each issue of the magazine were almost exclusively photographic.
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