[Ruins after San Francisco earthquake, 1906] – Vintage Print
![[Ruins after San Francisco earthquake, 1906], [1906] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2d/2d3942d5ca53-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of [Ruins after San Francisco earthquake, 1906] brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Ruins after San Francisco earthquake, 1906]
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The record gives no specific building or street, so this view stands for the wider ruin left by the April 18, 1906 earthquake and the fires that followed it. Those fires burned for several days and destroyed much of the city's core, leaving rows of collapsed masonry and gutted frames across neighborhoods that had been dense with homes and businesses only weeks earlier. Photographs like this one were among the records that showed the scale of the loss to the rest of the country. The image also belongs to a larger body of work by photographers who documented the damage in the days and months that followed.
| Created / published | [1906] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. |
| Subjects | Earthquakes--California--San Francisco--1900-1910. Fires--California--San Francisco--1900-1910. Ruins--California--San Francisco--1900-1910. Buildings--California--San Francisco--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,226 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115292 |
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