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The Turk Street house of Earl Miles survived the earthquake and the subsequent catastrophic fire but the studio did not. The Miles brothers based their business out of Earl's home, and shot more film of post-earthquake scenes; some of this footage, including that of a second trip down a now devastated Market Street, reemerged in 2016. [2] [3 ...
Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897–1916 – American Memory at the Library of Congress; A geologic tour of the San Francisco earthquake, 100 years later – American Geological Institute; The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire – Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco website
The negative was taken by train to the New York office on April 17th, 1906, narrowly saving it from destruction by one day. From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip down Market Street, San Francisco, California, from a point between 8th & 9th Streets, Eastward to the cable car turnaround at the Ferry Building.
English: LOC description: "This film, shot from the front window of a moving Market Street cable car, is a rare record of San Francisco's principal thoroughfare and downtown area before their destruction in the 1906 earthquake and fire. The filmed ride covers 1.55 miles at an average speed of nearly 10 miles per hour.
Arguably the last major urban fire in the U.S. was San Francisco in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake.” ... the 1991 Tunnel fire in the Oakland and Berkeley Hills marked the start of the ...
By RYAN GORMAN A massive earthquake that struck the Bay Area on October 17, 1989 forever changed the region, and potentially altered the course of baseball history. The 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta ...
San Francisco in ruins after the 1906 earthquake and fire. ... Merchant and Body ... Photographer from Cheney Photo Advertising Co. Original photo part of Oakland ...
Before the fire, Claire Schwartz loved to find old photos for sale at the Pasadena City College flea market and would try to return them to the people who snapped the pictures.