Browse images of earthquakes

Refugees at a food station after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing Gear Street, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing refugees in front of a damaged building, 1906. 1906-1906

Panoramic view of San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the heart of the business district, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the Mutual Life Building amidst the ruins of Kearney Street, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the San Francisco Hotel and Annex, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the Valencia Hotel, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the old and new buildings of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing ruins of the Crocker Mansion on Nob Hill, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing burnt ruins of automobiles and carriages, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing ruins of Pacific Railroad Company's hospital at 14th and Mission Streets, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing ruins of the Masonic Temple on Post and Montgomery Streets, 1906. 1906-1906

Bread line on 6th and Mission Streets after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the west entrance to City Hall, 1906. 1906-1906

Ruins of the vaults in the Bank of California, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

Graves of thirty unidentified dead after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco eathquake damage, showing people heading toward the Ferry Building, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the California Hotel at Bush and Kearney Streets, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the California Hotel, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the Hearst Building on 3rd and Market Street, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the Monadnock and Call Buildings, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the Call and San Francisco Chronicle newspaper buildings on Market Street, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of buildings on Powell Street from Market Street, 1906. 1906-1906

Refugees standing in a bread line in front of a Roman Catholic Church on Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing a side view of the ruins of City Hall, 1906. 1906-1906

Woman cooking in Fillmore Street after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of buildings on the California Street hill from Sansome Street, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing ruins of the Orpheum and Alcazar Theaters, 1906. 1906-1906

View of Mission Street in San Francisco, showing twisted streetcar tracks and other earthquake damage, 1906. 1906-1906

Ruins of the vaults in the Fireman's Fund Building in San Francisco following the earthquake and fire, 1906. 1906-1906

Refugee camp in Jefferson Square after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing people with carriages and automobiles on Market Street near Sansome, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the new Hall of Justice Building, just complete, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing a crowd in front of the ruins of City Hall, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of Saint Mary's Church and Chinatown viewed from California and Dupont Streets, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the City Hall from Market Street, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the depression of the ground next to the new Post Office, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing a horse and carriage in the street in Nob Hill, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing aphotographer shooting City Hall through the ruins, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing a barber painting a sign "Shaving" on the side of a tent, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the Landsome Hibernia Bank at Market and McAllister Streets, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the Mark Hopkins Art Institute, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of Howards Souvenir Store, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing ruins of the observatory in Golden Gate Park, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing workers eating dinner at Montgomery Street looking north from California Street, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the vaults in Continental Insurance Company, 1906. 1906-1906

Soldiers in the streets of San Francisco following the earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

View of earthquake-damaged buildings, including the Temple Emanuel, in San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of the twenty million dollar City Hall Building, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of City Hall, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of Hale's, 1906. 1906-1906

Exterior view of the Mission San Francisco Dolores after the 1906 earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, looking up Powell Street, 1906. 1906-1906

Panorama of San Francisco in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fire, shown from the Stanford residence (?) on Nob Hill, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of various buildings on Kearney Street looking towards Market Street from Sutter Street, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing people standing in front of the first office buildings erected after the disaster, 1906. 1906-1906

Refugee camp after the San Francisco earthquake, showing a National Guardsman on duty under martial law, 1906. 1906-1906

Ruins of a bake shop, showing bread being baked for refugees, San Francisco, April, 1906. 1906-1906

Seventeenth Street, showing cracks caused by the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

Street damaged by the earthquake, showing a cracked building, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

Exterior view of Crocker Mansion on Nob Hill, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

Stack of a garbage incinerator where two were killed, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

"New San Francisco refugee living", San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

View of damage from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

View of First and Howard Street, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

View south of Market Street, showing fire damage, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

Refugee camp in San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

View of San Jose following the 1906 earthquake, showing damage done to Saint Patrick's Church, 1906. 1906-1906

View of San Jose following the 1906 earthquake, showing damage done to Saint Patrick's Church, 1906. 1906-1906

View of San Jose following the 1906 earthquake, showing damage done to a business street, 1906. 1906-1906

View of San Jose following the 1906 earthquake, showing soldiers in a camp in a park under martial law, 1906. 1906-1906

Fire approaching the residential district of San Francisco, viewed from Market Street and 14th Street, 1906. 1906-1906

View of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires, showing a view of Ferry Building tower looking toward Nobb Hill, 1906. 1906-1906

Bread line at Webster and Park, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

View of a demolished street in San Francisco after the earthquake and fire, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the start of the great fire, 1906. 1906-1906

Troops cooking on a coal pile, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

Abandoned wheel chairs at Saint Marks Hospital after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

Exterior view of Saint Dominics Church, showing fire damage, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

Coal pile on fire on Howard Street, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

People standing in a bread line on Heights Street, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

People cooking in the street, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

McAllister Street near Market Street, showing men cleaning the earthquake debris in San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

The site of the Valencia Hotel, showing people searching for buried dead in the earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

View of a road from Saint Marks Hospital, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

View of Fremont Street from Saint Mark Hospital, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

Bread line at a mission school, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

The site of the Valencia Hotel, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

Burned-out buildings in San Francisco after the earthquake and fire, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the City Hall Dome in the background, 1906. 1906-1906

Exterior view of Grace Church, showing earthquake damage, California, 1906. 1906-1906

Broken wires on mission street, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

Fire approaching the residential district of San Francisco, viewed from market Street and 14th Street, 1906. 1906-1906

San Francisco earthquake damage, showing an exterior view of the City Hall Dome, 1906. 1906-1906

View of buildings burning in the fire following the earthquake in San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

Howard (or Guerrero Street?) at 18th Street, showing earthquake damage in San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

Statue of the Angel of Grief at Stanford University following the 1906 earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

Exterior view of the Museum at Stanford University following the 1906 earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

Exterior view of the Library at Stanford University following the 1906 earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

Refugees moving out in after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906