“Redwood in the San Francisco Fire” Photo Album

“Redwood in the San Francisco Fire” is a small photograph album in the collections of the Forest History Society, prepared in June of 1906 by the Redwood Car Shippers Bureau and donated to the Society by the Davenport, Peters Company. The album contains 10 photographs depicting damage caused by the San Francisco earthquake and fires of April 1906, promoting the effectiveness of redwood as a fire-retardant construction material.

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