Browse images of earthquakes

View of Stanford University after the 1906 earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

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Exterior view of the Ferry Building, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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

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San Francisco earthquake damage, showing California Street looking towards the ferry, 1906. 1906-1906

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Ruins of the Entrance Lodge and Hall of Stanford University after the 1906 earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

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Ruins of the Gymnasium at Stanford University after the 1906 earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of the Gymnasium at Stanford University following the 1906 earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

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San Francisco earthquake damage, from Nob Hill, 1906. 1906-1906

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Demolition of the Grand Central Hotel on the corner of Third Street and Mission Street in San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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San Francisco earthquake damage, showing debris on Pine Street, 1906. 1906-1906

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San Francisco earthquake damage, showing large cracks in the street exposing a water main, 1906. 1906-1906

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San Francisco earthquake damage, looking northwest from the corner of Sutter and Jones Streets, 1906. 1906-1906

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San Francisco earthquake damage, showing refugees from the corner of Pine and Stockton Streets, 1906. 1906-1906

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San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of unidentified buildings, 1906. 1906-1906

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San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the shopping district from Nob Hill, 1906. 1906-1906

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Panoramic view of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake, viewed from Nob Hill, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of San Francisco from Nob Hill after the earthquake and fire, 1906. 1906-1906

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Refugee in her makeshift home after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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San Francisco earthquake damage, showing a photographer on Grant Avenue from Market Street, 1906. 1906-1906

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San Francisco earthquake damage, looking northwest from the corner of Ellis and Powell Streets, 1906. 1906-1906

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

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San Francisco earthquake damage, showing a monument on Market Street, 1906. 1906-1906

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San Francisco earthquake damage, showing the ruins of buildings on Market and Mason Streets from the Native Sons Monument, 1906. 1906-1906

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San Francisco earthquake damage, showing Kearney Street from 3rd and Market Street, 1906. 1906-1906

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Panoramic view of San Francisco in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fire, showing the bay, 1906. 1906-1906

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San Francisco earthquake damage, from Nob Hill toward Telegraph Hill, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of Fifteenth Street in Oakland, showing earthquake damage, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of dust and smoke from an explosion of dynamite used to destroy dangerous walls after an earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of the bay and islands from Nob Hill, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Burned automobile, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Earthquake damage on Howard Street where eleven people were killed, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Street, sunk and cracked after the earthquake, Seventeenth and Howard Street, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Exterior view of houses moved off their foundations, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of San Francisco from Nob Hill after the earthquake and the fire, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of San Francisco from Nob Hill, showing earthquake damage, 1906. 1906-1906

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Dynamited building on Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Earthquake damage showing extensive rubble, looking from the US Mint towards Ward's Bay, 1906. 1906-1906

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Earthquake refugees at the US Mint Building in San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Remains of a can factory, near Fourth Street and Townsend, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Brannan and Ninth Street, showing cracks caused by the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Exterior view of a building on Stewart and Mission Street, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of the Buniad District from Saint Julian Street, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of San Francisco from Nob Hill following the earthquake and fire, 1906. 1906-1906

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Earthquake damage showing Creek City in San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of San Francisco from Nob Hill, showing earthquake damage, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of San Francisco from Nob Hill, showing earthquake damage, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Exterior view of 377 Shatwell Street, showing the house tilted off its foundation, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Seventeenth and Howard Street, showing bent tracks, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of Howard Street, showing where the earth sunk after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Exterior view of the Saint John Evangelist Episcopal Church on Fifteenth Street and Julian, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of rubble blocking Ellis Street in San Francisco following the earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of a refugee camp in San Francisco after the earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco after the earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

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Burned cable car near Van Ness, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Earthquake damage seen from Market Street in San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of Sixteenth Street from Howard Street, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Houses tilted together on Shatwell Street, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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

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Crack in Howard Street, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Brannan and 9th Street, showing cracks caused by the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Dynamited building, "to stop fire", San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of San Francisco burning from the bay after the earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

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Poles blown down by dynamite, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Brannan near 9th Street, moved over 8 feet 3/2 inches by the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Sixteenth Street, showing vibrations by cracks in a wall, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Golden Gate refugees eating next to a sunk street on Sixteenth and Howard Street, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Street out of line on Seventeenth and Howard Street, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Steel beams bent by the fire, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of San Jose following the 1906 earthquake, showing damage done to Santa Clara Avenue, 1906. 1906-1906

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Exterior view of a church, showing earthquake damage, Oakland, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of earthquake damage in San Francisco, showing the City Hall building, 1906. 1906-1906

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Interior view of a house, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of the Hall of Justice from China Town, showing earthquake damage, San Jose, 1906. 1906-1906

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A company of the First Coast Battery, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Exterior view of 522 1/2 9th Street, where a woman and child were killed in the fire, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Mail distribution at the main post office, Stevenson Street entrance, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Head quarters tent at the "First Quarter Battery", San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Ninth Street, showing earthquake damage on the sidewalk, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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House shook off its foundation, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of San Jose following the 1906 earthquake, showing damage done to a wooden building in which six were killed, 1906. 1906-1906

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Man examining the ruins of the OA Hale & Co. building, caused by 1906 earthquake in San Jose, 1906. 1906-1906

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San Jose's Main Street showing damage from the earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

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Exterior view of R.G. Dunne & Co., showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Mission district, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Hospital tent at the First Coast Batter, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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"Looters" at a damaged building in San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Ninth street, showing earthquake damage on a house, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of the remains of a trolley car in front of the Valencia St. Hotel in San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Exterior view of Empire Theatre, showing earthquake damage, Oakland, 1906. 1906-1906

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A company of the First Coast Battery, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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View of a destroyed building after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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View down California Street, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Refugees eating at the camp of First Coast Battery Artillery, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Officer Mars and the First Coast Battery Artillery after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Exterior view of earthquake damage at the Pacific Glass Works Company, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Remains of the Daily News, the first paper publications in San Francisco, after the earthquake, 1906. 1906-1906

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Exterior view of the New Jackson Brewery, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Refugee camp, showing a crowd of refugees, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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Sunk ground in front of the Post Office after the earthquake, San Francisco, 1906. 1906-1906

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