Broken Face Of A City -- Here is how Market street in San Francisco looked 50 years ago this month. Clouds of smoke from three days of fire covered the city after the earthquake which destroyed 60,000 buildings, left 265,000 homeless and killed at least 700. But 'Frisco came back to life (below).

Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Broken Face Of A City -- Here is how Market street in San Francisco looked 50 years ago this month. Clouds of smoke from three days of fire covered the city after the earthquake which destroyed 60,000 buildings, left 265,000 homeless and killed at least 700. But 'Frisco came back to life (below).

[ca. April 1956]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Earthquake San Francisco 1908

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