After the Earthquake, San Francisco, Arnold Genthe, 1906

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After the Earthquake, San Francisco, 1906, Gelatin silver print, x cm (5 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.), Photographs, Arnold Genthe (American (born Germany), Berlin 1869–1942 New Milford, Connecticut), Early on the morning of April 18, 1906, a severe earthquake rocked San Francisco, immediately prompting a devastating three-day fire. Genthe, a pictorialist photographer who operated a portrait studio on Sutton Street, captured the panic and confusion that pervaded the city and presaged the vast damage yet to come: by the end of the third day, more than four square miles of San Francisco had been leveled

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Size: 6098px × 3531px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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