McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 018

Title: McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 018
Description: Caption: "Italian Refugee Hut S.F. -- 1906." Makeshift hut with four unidentified men standing in doorway. After the earthquake and fire that destroyed much of San Francisco in April 1906, hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless. Many of these people established temporary refugee camps, using debris from the destruction to cobble together shelters.
Contributor: Audrey Fullerton-Samora of Sacramento, great niece of William and Grace McCarthy, donated the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection to the California State Archives in 1996.
Coverage: San Francisco, California
Date: 1906
Format: JPEG, scanned at 400 DPI, 24-bit color
Identifier: 96-07-08-alb05-018
Language: English
Publisher: California State Archives, a division of the California Secretary of State's Office
Source: Image from the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08)
Subject: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
Type: Still Image