Photographs from The U.S. Geological Survey Report on the San Francisco Earthquake of April 18,1906

 

Subsidence of street

Flood Building

Stanford University Church

Damage to Pilarcitos pipe line

Pacific Telephone Building

Stanford Univ. Geology Dept.

West from Telegraph Hill

Main Post Office

Stanford Univ. Gymnasium

Ferry Building damage

Post Office stonework

San Jose High School 

Collapse of the City Hall

Collapsed cement block 

Failure of "fireproof" safes

The Emporium

Buckled street

Water Company building

Temple Emanuel

Failure of basement column

Unprotected  columns

Temple, Geary and Fillmore

Unprotected steel work 

Bekins Warehouse

Mission Dolores 

Appraisers' Warehouse, 

Fence parted by earthquake

Three maps from report.

Official Accounts by departments of the City and County of San Francisco, 1907
Fire, Library, Police, Public Works, Schools