Photograph

City Hall in ruins

San Francisco · 1906

What the picture shows

The dome’s frame is bare. Walls are down. Rubble fills the foreground.

Documented context

The old City Hall after 18 April 1906. A building, not a theory.

Photographer: Not named on the Library of Congress record
Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs, item 95504346. One photographic print of the earthquake-damaged City Hall.
License: Public domain.