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Series: Photographs of the Aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake, compiled 1906 - 1906 (National Archives Identifier: 522932) NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-92-ER-26; 92-ER-26; Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: Other versions
San Francisco Mission District burning in the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. Reason A dramatic photograph taken at some personal risk: a major fire rages quite close to the rooftop where this was shot 102 years ago when camera equipment was heavy and required a tripod.
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On 18 April 1906, the morning of the great San Francisco earthquake, Genthe, with his cameras and studio destroyed, borrowed a hand-held camera and photographed the destruction across the city. Of his over 180 surviving, sharp-focus photographs of San Francisco, probably his most famous image is "San Francisco, April 18th, 1906," which shows a ...
A section of San Francisco, looking east across Grant Avenue toward Yerba Buena Island, shows the ravages of the great earthquake that struck Wednesday, April 18, 1906.
On April 18, 1906, San Franciscans were awoken at 5:11 a.m. by what would become the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history.
Willard Elmer Worden (November 20, 1868-September 6, 1946) was an American photographer active in the San Francisco Bay Area in the first decades of the 1900s. Trained as an artist and self-taught as a photographer, he attained recognition with his photographs documenting the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake April 18 – 23, 1906 Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine – The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco; JB Monaco Photography – Photographic account of earthquake and fire aftermath from well-known North Beach photographer; Tsunami Record from the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake ...