Here are 18 stereoscopic photos taken in San Francisco immediately after the great quake of 1906. vThese photographs were apparently hand-colored at the time they were first printed.
Want to know more about the disaster? See the first news coverage of the earthquake here.
Down California St, from Fairmount Hotel, the fire-swept district of San Francisco
1906 earthquake and fire wreck of the Magnificent Huntington and Flood Palaces and Fairmont Hotel
Effect of earthquake on Market Street Pavement. Ferry Bldg. Tower in distance, San Francisco
Gathering a few home relics at the ruins of the Wenban Palace, Van Ness Ave., San Francisco
A glimpse of the Fire Devastated Heart of San Francisco from the Huntington Palace on California Street
San Francisco’s magnificent City Hall and Hall of Records, destroyed by fire and earthquake
San Francisco’s Six-Million-Dollar City Hall, containing the Municipal Records wrecked by the earthquake
Showing devastation by earthquake and fire in the building containing the municipal records
The destruction of San Francisco, April 18, 1906, showing Market Street and Ferry Building Tower
The New Masonic Temple on Sutter Street badly wrecked by the San Francisco earthquake
The ruins of streets and homes, of wrecked district at Van Ness and Vallejo Streets
The Union Ferry Station showing earthquake and fire devastated waterfront section
The utter desolation of San Francisco from the waterfront, Fairmount Hotel on Nob Hill in distance
The wreck of the beautiful St. Luke’s Church on Van Ness Ave., devastated by earthquake and fire
Wrecking dangerous walls in the shaken and burned district of San Francisco – April 18, 1906
A makeshift camp on the border of desolation in the fire scourged district of San Francisco
A row of earthquake-wrecked cottages on Steiner and Bush Streets
Bringing order out of chaos of San Francisco’s ruins – Opening up impassable streets
Images courtesy Online Archive of California and The New York Public Library. Part of the Robert N Dennis collection of stereoscopic views — Stereoscopic color halftone views of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
