Abstract The Geraldine McGrady Jones Collection is a small 20th century family collection that documents ordinary family life in Los Gatos, California. This collection consists of typed and handwritten creative writing works by Geraldine McGrady Jones; family photographs; a collection of digitized photographs; an informal oral history interview with the two surviving daughters, Geraldine (Gerry) Peters and Betty Ermert; a San Jose Normal School diploma; Dibble General Hospital Honors Certificate; a...

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This collection includes postcards that feature black and white images of ruins from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The devastating earthquake occurred on April 18, 1906, and fires proceeded for the next several days. The impact of the earthquake affected surrounding cities as well, with San Francisco’s destruction being the most severe. Destroying the city and taking many lives, this event remains one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States.