Photograph of San Francisco in ruins from Lawrence Captive Airship, 2000 feet above San Francisco Bay overlooking water front. Sunset over Golden [Gat]e – Vintage Photo Print
![Photograph of San Francisco in ruins from Lawrence Captive Airship, 2000 feet above San Francisco Bay overlooking water front. Sunset over Golden [Gat]e, c1906. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a4/a43fbd95e1f8-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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Photograph of San Francisco in ruins from Lawrence Captive Airship, 2000 feet above San Francisco Bay overlooking water front. Sunset over Golden [Gat]e comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Photograph of San Francisco in ruins from Lawrence Captive Airship, 2000 feet above San Francisco Bay overlooking water front. Sunset over Golden [Gat]e
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The panoramic view here was made from a captive airship, a tethered balloon, floating roughly 2,000 feet above San Francisco Bay, and it looks out over the waterfront toward a sunset above the Golden Gate. George R. Lawrence, a Chicago photographer, used a large kite-and-balloon rig to make these aerial panoramas of the city in the months after the April 1906 earthquake and fire, when much of the downtown lay in ruins. The long, wide format was his specialty, and it lets the viewer take in the scale of the destruction across the whole city at once.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 18 x 48 in. |
| Genre | Cityscape photographs.Aerial photographs.Gelatin silver prints.Panoramic photographs. |
| Notes | Copyright claimant's address: Chicago. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; 1906. Exhibit loan 4105-L. Exhibited in: Documenting disaster: photographs of the 1906 San Francisco earthquakes and fire, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2006. |
| Subjects | Earthquakes. Fires. Waterfronts.United States--California--San Francisco. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,462 × 1,147 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217826 |
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