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

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

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

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