City Hall after the earthquake, showing the shattered foundations, San Francisco, Cal.

Provision and supply station. Refugees awaiting distribution of stoves and food, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.

Cooking food in rude street ovens - all chimneys being shattered by the earthquake, Broderick St., San Francisco, Calif.

Homeless refugees tenting in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif. Disaster

On duty "amid the encircling gloom" of a city's certain destruction. Magnificent fire scene near Union Ferry Bldg. San Francisco, U.S.A.

San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Cattle killed by falling walls

San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Barber in Jefferson Park

San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Registration Bureau

Ruined but not disheartened, his safe, his business souvenir, San Francisco, April 1906

Life in San Francisco after the great disaster--cooking in the streets, Cal.

From Kohl Bldg. south to the once great business centre of destroyed San Francisco, Cal.

A band of little homeless refugees--happy in spite of the terrible calamity--San Francisco, Cal.

A crude post office - reorganizing the mail service after the earthquake, San Francisco, Cal.

San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Looking for lost treasures in the miles of ruins

San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Burned cable cars - looking east on California St. over the terrible wreckage

San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Pulling down the walls of great business bldgs., ruined by earthquake and fire

San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Dynamiting unsafe walls left by the earthquake and fire

Police headquarters in the ruined city - St. Dominick's Church beyond, San Francisco, Calif.

Market St., San Francisco, from the Ferry Building, one year after the fire

San Francisco earthquake, 1906: A temporary home near the City Hall

San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Looking down Montgomery St. towards the Palace Hotel

A relief dinner for disaster sufferers, San Francisco

San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Refugees at Golden Gate

San Francisco Earthquake & Fire, Apr. 1906: Refugees at dinner, food plain but palatable, 16th and Dolores

San Francisco Earthquake, April 18, 1906: Post Office [tent] in Hamilton Square refugee camp

San Francisco Earthquake, April 18, 1906: Thousands of tons of relief supplies piled on the sidewalk

San Francisco in flames - showing freaks of the earthquake in the foreground

San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Fort Mason, where thousands of destitute sufferers found relief