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1906 Candrian City Plan or Map of San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, California
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Title
1906 (dated) 15.25 x 18.25 in (38.735 x 46.355 cm) 1 : 29000
Description
San Francisco and the 1906 Earthquake
However, the detail most of interest here is the thick green line outlining the 'Fire District' in downtown San Francisco. The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake struck on the morning of April 18. The fire soon broke out in the city and raged for several days. In the end, over eighty percent of the city was destroyed by either the earthquake or the fire, and over 3,000 people lost their lives. Estimates state that the subsequent fires caused ninety percent of all the destruction wrought by the disaster. Over thirty fires raged throughout the city over the following four days, destroying nearly 25,000 buildings and 490 city blocks. It remains the deadliest event in California's history and ranks among the worst natural disasters in American history.Publication History and Census
This map was created and published by Hermon Candrian in 1906. Four examples are cataloged in OCLC and are part of the institutional collection at the California Historical Society, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California Berkeley, and the University of California Berkeley Libraries.Cartographer
Hermon Anton Candrian (March 28, 1852 - November 28, 1928), commonly publishing as H. A. Candrian, was a Swiss-American map publisher active in San Francisco in the first half of the 20th Century. Candrian was born in Bonaduz, Graubünden, Switzerland. It is unclear when he emigrated to the Untied States, but he working as an insurance agent in Seattle around 1900 and by 1905 had relocated to San Francisco. From at least 1906, his wife, Bertha Wilhemina Candrian (née Harry; 1862 - 1944), drafted many of his maps. Candrian’s works focus heavily and tourist and railway guides to the city of San Francisco and the general Bay Area. More by this mapmaker...