The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire by Various. Read in English by Maria Kasper During the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906, newspaper reporters in the stricken city made a heroic effort to keep the public informed. Despite the destruction of their offices and presses, they managed to track down news and write stories even as the city burned around them, to locate printing facilities across the bay, and to put newspapers into the hands of readers desperate for a correct picture of what was happening. This selection from the articles they produced in the midst of a city in flames gives a glimpse of how the event was experienced by those who were there. The articles are selected from the following newspapers: (1) "The Call-Chronicle-Examiner" (April 19, 1906) -- a collaborative effort by the reporters of three rival papers who pooled their stories on the first day of the fire. (2) "The Call" (April 21 and 22, 1906). - Summary by Maria Kasper

Recording facts

• Recording title: The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 5:28:43

Catalogue topics

• San Francisco
• earthquake
• journalism
• fire
• 1906
• newspapers

Track guide

1. 01 - Items from the Call-Chronicle-Examiner, April 19, 1906 — 28:37
2. 02 - Items from the Call-Chronicle-Examiner, April 19, 1906 — 17:57
3. 03 - Items from the Call-Chronicle-Examiner, April 19, 1906 — 21:33
4. 04 - Items from the Call, April 21, 1906 — 26:34
5. 05 - Items from the Call, April 21, 1906 — 24:43
6. 06 - Items from the Call, April 21, 1906 — 31:16
7. 07 - Items from the Call, April 22, 1906 — 43:07
8. 08 - Items from the Call, April 22, 1906 — 44:23
9. 09 - Items from the Call, April 22, 1906 — 35:03
10. 10 - Items from the Call, April 22, 1906 — 55:30

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