True grit. Barber painting sign on tent stretched on sidewalk of former place.

Looking northeast from corner Sutter and Jones Sts.

Looking northeast from corner Sutter and Jones Sts.

Looking northeast from corner Sutter and Jones Sts.

Looking northeast from corner Sutter and Jones Sts.

Market Street, from Ferry Depot. Chronicle and Call buildings in distance.

Market Street, from Ferry Depot. Chronicle and Call buildings in distance.

Market Street, from Ferry Depot. Chronicle and Call buildings in distance.

Market Street, from Ferry Depot. Chronicle and Call buildings in distance.

Refugee camp made of scraps corrugated sheet iron gathered from the ruins.

Refugee camp made of scraps of corrugated sheet iron gathered from the ruins.

Refugee camp made of scraps corrugated sheet iron gathered from the ruins.

Refugee camp made of scraps corrugated sheet iron gathered from the ruins.

Refugee camp made of scraps, corrugated sheet iron gathered from the ruins

Great cracks in street and settling sidewalks, Capp Street, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A.

Terrible destruction of City Hall (cost $7,000,000), from Market St., San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A.

Looking down California St. Ferry building in distance, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A.

A fire engine caught and crushed by a falling wall, Post St., San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A.

Post St., once a busy shopping district, now a scene of desolation, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A.

General view of burned area, (Market St. on left) from Ferry Tower, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A.

Effects of the Earthquake, Oct. 21, 1868, Market and First Sts.

Effects of the Earthquake, Oct. 21, 1868, Railroad House, Clay St.

Effects of the Earthquake, Oct. 21, 1868, Railroad House, Clay St.

Looking north on Mason Street, from Market.

The Pride of the Pacific Coast, laid desolate in a few hours, Great Earthquake, San Francisco.

Looking toward Union Square from Nob Hill, Great Earthquake, San Francisco.

An Afternoon on Market Street [after] the Great Earthquake, San Francisco.

Where modern sky-scrapers were tossed like a ship at sea - Newspaper Row, Great Earthquake, San Francisco.

The San Francisco earthquake, April 18, 1906.

In Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco.