April 12, 2024
1906 Photo Album San Francisco Earthquake Salinas Butler Handwritten + Family
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Up for auction today is a photo album I purchased at the Antique Expo here in Portland Oregon . There are a total of 141 photos in this album and all of them are early 1900’s. The first 9 pages have to do with the San Francisco Earthquake in 1906. There are 20 real photos of the quake that say “Butler Photo”. I’ve been trying to do some research on Butler but can’t find too much; although I haven’t spent a great deal of time doing so. I do know that there was a well know West Coast photographer who was born in Pennsylvania but lived and had his photography studio in California and also Nevada . His name was Edward Payson Butler but I have no idea if this is the same Butler as mentioned on these photos. There’s writing on the photos too describing each scene. It’s funny too because on one he writes “1806” instead of “1906”. The pages are too big to completely fit onto my scanner so in the photos above some may look cut off but they are not. Also the yellow line you see in some of the scanned photos is just from my scanner. It’s not on the photos themselves. All of Butler ’s photos are pasted in just using the four corners of the photos themselves. After these pages you’ll find 22 postcard type photos (but not quite as thick as postcards). On them it says “Photo SUB-POST Card Co., L.A. trade Mark.” These are pasted to the pages using
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