On back of the photograph: "Picture taken on lawn of J. R. Welch home, 253 South Eigth Street San Jose, where a concrete building of State College now stands. Right: Camellia Blanche Marsh, Mrs. Artus Metzger and sister of Mrs. J. R. Welch....
Buildings; Earthquakes; Hotels; Photographs; Rubble; Ruins; San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Black-and-white photograph of an hotel in San Jose after the earthquake in 1906. Written on back of the photograph, "Nice airy bedrooms. A lodging house in San Jose, California after the earthquake."
