2005.52.76

One of nine negatives found in the same original envelope. The original envelope reads, "Oakland 1906, Earth-Quake Pictures, (central bank bldg. is written below, and crossed out)". None of the images are specifically identified.

At 5:15 a.m. on April 18, 1906, Californians from Eureka to Salinas were jolted by an estimated 7.7-7.9-magnitude earthquake along the San Andreas Fault. The force of the quake destroyed the downtown of Santa Rosa, caused chaos in San Jose and Stanford University, and caused alarm and death in Oakland. San Francisco, California's largest city at the time, was subjected to the most destruction. Excerpt from Aftershock! Centennial Exhibition write-up, 2005.