Saturday, August 31, 2013

San Francisco Earthquake

The great earthquake of April 18, 1906 that leveled San Francisco still ranks as one of the greatest disasters to strike an American city. Here are some photos taken in the aftermath of that event.

 Aftermath of San Francisco earthquake
  
 Burning of San Francisco. Mission District
  
 Clearing away the debris
  
 Fresh vegetables and fruits for special diet
  
 Main Building. Agnew State Hospital
  
People leaving the city
  
This is the famous photo by Arnold Genthe of the city burning
  
 San Francisco in ruins
  
 SF earthquake damage. Photo by John Molfino
  
 Dead horses in the earthquake's aftermath
 
 Soldiers in San Francisco ruins
  
Stockton Street from Union Square, looking toward Market Street
  
 Typical bread line in the early stages of relief distribution 
after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
  
Bread line
 
 Van Ness Avenue at Vallejo Street
 
A refugee camp (possibly) in the vicinity of Haight Street and Central Avenue

Friday, August 30, 2013

Roman Vishniac

 Beth Israel Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, early 1940s
  
 Beth Israel Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, early 1940s
  
Children playing on a street lined with swastika flags, probably outskirts of Berlin, mid-1930s
  
 During the Summer Olympic Games, Wittenbergplatz, Berlin, 1936
  
 Factory worker cutting and grinding glass, Hoffman MF & Co., New York, 1942-44
  
 German family walking between taxicabs in front of the 
Ufa-Palast movie theater, Berlin, late 1920s-early 1930s
  
 Girls
  
 Jewish refugee from Europe arriving on a children's transport under 
 the sponsorship of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), 
a Quaker organization, City College of New York, West Harlem, 1941
  
 Lublin Ghetto in Poland
  
Recalcitrance, Berlin, 1926

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Neurdein Frères

 Algeria. Tlemcen. Young Moorish woman
  
 Chateau de Caze
  
 Constantine. Ancien Palais d'Ahmed-Bey
  
 Constantine. Maures
  
 Eiffel Tower during 1889 Exposition
  
 Femme des Ouled Naı̈ls
  
 Le Grand Palais - L'exposition de sculpture
  
 Mauresque
  
 Nice. Winter Garden in the Municipal Casino
  
 Odalisque
  
 Soubassement d'une pile. Septembre 1888
  
 Tunis. La Porte de la Folle (Bab-Menara)
  
 Tunis. Mosquée Sidi-ben-Ziaa
  
Young Jewish girls, Tunis

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Robert Doisneau

 A young girl crossing the street on roller skates on chaussée de la Muette in Paris, 1955
  
 Accordionist playing in a bistro near Les Halles, ca. 1950
  
 At the Café, Chez Fraysse, Rue de Seine, Paris, 1958
  
 Baiser Blotto, 1950
  
 Be Bop cellar, Saint-Germain-des-Pres, 1951
  
 Casting at Concert Mayol, 1953
  
Concert Mayol, 1952
 
 Children in the Palais Royale garden, ca. 1950
  
 Couple from the Quai de la Rapée, 1951
  
 Dream girls, 1952
  
 Fishermen, Pont De La Tournelle, Paris, 1951
  
 Harvesting, 1957
  
 Jacqueline Delubac in the balcony, Paris, 1951
  
 Jacques Prevert at a coffee table, 1955
  
 Jardin Des Plantes, 1951
  
 July 14 Party in the Street, Paris, 1956
  
Le Java, 1951