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The World Wide View Co : RUINS OF THE JEWISH SYNAGOGUE ON SUTTER ST.; STOOD THE GREAT EARTHQUAKES OF 1865 AND 1868

Chicago, The World Wide View Co., N.D.

No date (1906) . First edition. Original illustrated tan stereoview card with left-eye and right-eye black-and-white photographs of two men in hats looking at the ruins of Synagogue Emanuel on Sutter St. In San Francisco, CA. 1 card; 17.5 x 8.5 cm. Synagogue Emanuel “is one of the two oldest Jewish congregations in California. During the Gold Rush in 1849, a small group of Jews held the first High Holy Days services on the west coast of the United States in San Francisco. This group of traders and merchants founded Congregation Emanu-El sometime in 1850, and its charter was issued in April, 1851. The 16 signatories were mostly German Jews from Bavaria” (Wikipedia 2017) . The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a severe earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 that shook the whole region. “Devastating fires soon broke out in the city and lasted for several days. As a result, about 3, 000 people died and over 80% of the city of San Francisco was destroyed. The events are remembered as one of the worst and deadliest natural disasters in the history of the United States. The death toll remains the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California’s history and high in the lists of American urban disasters” (Wikipedia 2017) . The World Wide View Company was a small Chicago company that issued uncommon lithograph stereoviews from the early 1900s until about 1915. No. 8 in the World Wide Series. SUBJECT(S) : Stereoview, Photography, Synagogues, San Francisco, Earthquakes. Minimal staining. Slight toning and rubbing. Very good condition. (AMR-53-2)

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