Friday, April 25, 2025

 




At the 1906 earthquake commemoration in San Francisco on April 18, Laura Ackley, the author of  San Francisco's Jewel City: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915,  distributed handcrafted commemorative garters.   But I don't know what the significance of the 5 is!





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