NEW SAN FRANCISCO MAGAZINE ~ FIRST EDITION (VOL 1 NO. 1)

Description: Scarce copy of New San Francisco Magazine FIRST EDITION Vol.1 No. 1. Illustrated 46 page magazine with 30 photographs showing San Francisco before during and after the earthquake including 12 panoramas, 3 maps and a number of advertisements. PHOTOS: Night Scene Of Burning City From Mainland, C. P. Moganos ,Last Hours of The Famous Palace Hotel, The Palace Hotel As It Looks Today, Flames And Debris In The Wholesale District Crossley Building--Property of Mrs. Oelrichs--In Flames,U.S. Mint Stood Solid Through All Effects of The Temblor on New Postoffice,Walls Of Examiner Building Across Newspaper Angle, Down Montgomery Street Toward Market, Ruins of City Hall Across Market Street California Street Showing Merchants' Exchange on Left, Dynamiting of The Phelan Building "The Restless, Homeless Thousands" on Grant Avenue,Hibernia Bank After The Fire,Seven-Million-Dollar City Hall In Ruins,Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill "The House Of Mirth"--Tivoli Opera House,Fire Seizing The Chronicle Building And Palace Hotel,The Beginning of The Holocaust,The Business Section When The Flames Had Passed,A View From The Top of Nob Hill,St. Francis Hotel And Union Square,Presidio Tent City And Hospitals,How They Came Back,Why They Left,View From Rincon Hill Before The Fire,Dr. David Starr Jordan, President of Leland Stanford Jr. University,Brig. Gen Frederick,Funston U.S.A., One Of Chicago's Methods of Securing Funds For San Francisco,Governor George C. Pardee. PANORAMAS: Van Ness Avenue--The Salvation of San Francisco,Vicinity Of City Hall And Post Office--Swept Bare And Clean,Donohoe Monument, Corner Bush And Market Streets,Down Market Street, Showing James Flood And Emporium Buildings, Down Powell Street, Showing St. Francis Hotel And Union Square,The Entrance To The "Tenderloin"--Ellis And Market Streets,Temple Beth Israel And Adjacent Buildings In Ruins,First Glimpse of The Stricken City From The Ferry Building,Panorama of The Golden City--Fairmont on Extreme Left And Newspaper Angle On Extreme Right,Looking North Through the Mission from Rincon Hill before the Flames Swept It Clean,The Flames From Hopkins Institute At 10 A.M. On The First Day Of The Fire. The District Shown Was Fully Destroyed,The Business Section, Worth One Hundred Million Dollars, Feeding The Flames of April 18th,A Mile of Flames As Seen From The Roof of The St. Francis Hotel Before The Fire Reached It. Maps  Comparative Areas of Recent Conflagrations [San Francisco, Chicago, Baltimore]  Map of San Francisco Showing Burned District  Map of San Francisco And Thereabout There are advertisements for cars, cigars, wine, real estate and insurance companies (several), some of the ads promote new addresses. One of the advertisers, The Pillsbury Picture Company, stated that "Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned We Fotoed While Frisco Burned." (Some of their photos are in this issue.) Most of the articles deal with the disaster, including one written by Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston. Magazine measures 9 x 12 inches and is in very good condition. Cover has been patched and is separated from main body. There are a few pages where additional earthquake photos have bee pasted over advertising pages (see scans). Please email with any questions and please "VIEW SELLERS OTHER ITEMS". Thanks.

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