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Debris and safe near railroad tracks
Gordon, John C. (photographer)
circa 1915
This image depicts a pile of debris, possibly following a fire. A safe with charred contents sits in the center. The door is unhinged. On top of the safe are the remnants of what once might have been an adding machine or a typewriter. Boxcars and utility poles are in the background. A car is... Show moreThis image depicts a pile of debris, possibly following a fire. A safe with charred contents sits in the center. The door is unhinged. On top of the safe are the remnants of what once might have been an adding machine or a typewriter. Boxcars and utility poles are in the background. A car is visible on the street. Show less
Image/jpg
8 x 10 in.
Photographic prints
Urban life
Disasters Debris Railroad freight cars Automobiles
John C. Gordon Photograph Collection
San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives
Series I, Box 2, Folder: Disasters
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Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
