• photography,  san francisco

    Four days later

    A Trip Down Market Street (1906)

    I think I’ve posted this before (not with this soundtrack though, it was a silent film), but didn’t realise it had been sent away on the evening before the quake – and hadn’t seen this picture on Shorpy on pretty much what this view down Market Street looked like a week or two later:

    After the Earthquake: 1906

    Amazing and sobering the power of nature, isn’t it?