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Chronicling America is a searchable digital collection of historic newspaper pages through 1963 sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
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Horrific shrieks of pain and grief pervade San Francisco as the most violent earthquake in modern history slams the city in the early morning hours of April 18, 1906. EARTHQUAKES DEAD MAY NUMBER 3,000; FIRE IS NOW RAGING, screamed the Final edition of the New York Evening World. Read more about it!
The information in this guide focuses on primary source materials found in the digitized historic newspapers from the digital collection Chronicling America.
The timeline below highlights important dates related to this topic and a section of this guide provides some suggested search strategies for further research in the collection.
| April 18, 1906 | Earthquake occurs at 5:12-5:13 a.m.; fires begin; many aftershocks occur. |
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| April 19, 1906 | Fires continue; several newspapers print a combined newspaper on the presses of the Oakland Tribune. |
| April 20, 1906 | Fires continue. |
| April 21, 1906 | Fires end. |
| April 22, 1906 | Rebuilding efforts widely announced. |
