Crocker Building San Francisco Earthquake CA Siegel Cooper Stereoview 1906

Description: Crocker Building San Francisco Earthquake Siegel Cooper Stereoview 1906 Siegel, Cooper & Co., Stereoview Crocker Building San Francisco Earthquake Siegel Cooper Stereoview 1906 Offered for auction is rather Scarce stereoview by Siegel Cooper & Co., Chicago with copyright date of 1906 by Tom Phillips on the back of the stereoview. The stereoview is from the set SCENES FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE APRIL 1906 and titled as follows -- --NO. 36 "Crocker Building " EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA APRIL 1906 -- The Siegel-Cooper Company was a department store that opened in Chicago in 1887 and expanded into New York City in 1896. At the time of its opening, the New York store was the largest in the world.Siegel-Cooper began as a discount department store on State Street in the Loop. It was founded by Henry Siegel, Frank H. Cooper and Isaac Keim in 1887. Four years later, the store moved into the eight-story Second Leiter Building at State and Van Buren Street, designed by William Le Baron Jenney. The store offered a wide variety of dry goods in its 18 acres (7 ha.), as well as other amenities such as a grocery department, barber shop, theatre, telegraph office, art gallery, photo studio, bank, dental office, a 350-person restaurant, and a conservatory which sold live plants. The main floor featured a copy of Daniel Chester French's statue The Republic[7] inside a marble-enclosed fountain. This was a popular meeting place, giving rise to the phrase "Meet me at the fountain," which the store used as a slogan, along with "A City in Itself" and "Everything Under the Sun".At its peak, the store employed over 3,000 people, mostly girls and women, and offered its employees an infirmary, a parlor and a gymnasium. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on April 18 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). Severe 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. As a result, about 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 natural disasters 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 urban disasters. Condition - Good - Very Good Please See our other views. We do combine shipping. Please see the other views in our store Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

Price: 28 USD

Location: Bolton, Massachusetts

End Time: 2025-01-31T11:00:00.000Z

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