1906San Francisco
San Francisco in ruins from a captive airship
George R. Lawrence Co. Camera suspended from kites, 28 May 1906.
True aerial photograph
1906·San Francisco
San Francisco in ruins from a captive airship
George R. Lawrence Co. Camera suspended from kites, 28 May 1906.
True aerial photograph · Reconstructed
What this plate shows
A camera hung from kites about 2,000 feet up, 28 May 1906. The Ferry Building and the waterfront in the near field. Market Street running inland through a field of ruins. True aerial photograph — not a lithograph of the disaster. Six weeks after 18 April. The fire is out. The city as the lens found it.
- Image type
- True aerial photograph
- Structure
- San Francisco — burnt district after 18 April 1906
- Region
- North America
- Present status
- Reconstructed — The city was rebuilt. This plate is the event: six weeks after the earthquake and fire, from the air.
- Source
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs, LC-DIG-ppmsca-07823.
- License
- Public domain (published 1906).
Chronologies
An 1878 bird’s-eye lithograph of the city from the bay, then George Lawrence’s kite photograph of the ruins six weeks after 18 April 1906. The rebuilt city as a later camera record is not here yet.
San Francisco, 1906