Illustrated view along Market Street from an earthquake book
1906
A plate from James Russel Wilson's 1906 volume on the San Francisco earthquake and fire, compiled from accounts by eyewitnesses and padded out with chapters on Vesuvius and other volcanoes. The scanned page is captioned as a view on Market Street, the city's main thoroughfare.
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