Set: Butters
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Writer Ernest sent these two postcards from Adrian Michigan to Gertrude Butters in Millinocket Maine within a few days of the 1906 S.F. earthquake and fire.
- Detroit 8103, postmarked 4/26/1906 (eight days after the earthquake): "This portion destroyed." The view is uncommon: it looks east on Geary from a high floor of the St. Francis Hotel. Union Square is below the bottom edge (not shown), the buildings at bottom are on Stockton, lower right is City of Paris, Selby Shot Tower (Howard/1st) is between the Chronicle clock tower and the Mutual Savings tower.
- Detroit 8119, postmarked 5/05/1906 (two weeks after the earthquake): "In this park thousands of homeless slept."
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