Image: The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror (1906) (14772648072) (cropped)

Description: Identifier: historyofsanfra00bank (find matches) Title: The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Banks, Charles Eugene, 1852-1932 Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939 Subjects: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 Volcanoes Fires Publisher: (Chicago? Ill. : s.n.) Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ' Text Appearing After Image: FOUR FINE BUILDINGS WRECKED. The Chronicle and Examiner Newspaper Buildings, the Hall of Justice and the Mills Building. CHAPTER XVII GREAT THEATRICAL BENEFITS Unparalleled Performance Given in the BernhardtTent in Chicago—Mighty Concourse of Stage Stars,including Bernhardt, Willard, Sothern and JuliaMarlowe—Thousands under Canvas—Actors FundBenefit Given for San Francisco Sufferers—Count-less Performances all Over the Country Swell theMonster Relief Fund. Unparalleled catastrophes must be met by un-equaled measures of relief. When the news of SanFranciscos awful disaster reached the world, it re-mained for Chicago and the actors and stage man-agers there to arrange and give the most stupendoustheatrical benefit performance ever known. The planwas first suggested by Andrew M. Lawrence, publisherof the Chicago Examiner and chairman of the Chi-cago general relief committee, and was taken up withthe utmost enthusiasm. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt offered the use of the greattent in which Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror (1906) (14772648072) (cropped)
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