Incredible Then And Now Photos Of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Merged Together In Single Frame

#1 The 5:15 A.M. train for San Francisco topples in Point Reyes Station.

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#2 The shoreline in Bolinas.

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#3 The great Swiss geologist Louis Agassiz decided to dive down to get a look at what was going on inside the earth.

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#4 The Stanford Memorial Church was wrecked with a fallen spire, cracked walls, and destroyed mosaics.

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#5 The Stanford Arch.

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#6 Sacramento and Miller Facing East

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#7 The Painted Ladies have escaped fire raging down the street. Mothers rest on the low wall in Alamo Square while their children play on the grass.

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#8 People walk beneath Old Saint Mary’s Cathedral, which survived the quake but was gutted by the fire

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#9 Happy tourists pass by the Fairmont Hotel, which still stands, but is destroyed inside from the fires.

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#10 Passing cable cars offer a view of the destruction of California Street. Old St. Marys Cathedral has escaped destruction.

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#11 California St below Powell St and the Fairmont Hotel.

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#12 People walk up California St amid charred scraps of lumber

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#13 Streetcars make their way through cleared rubble while vendors sell handcrafts at the foot of Market Street.

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#14 The Conservatory of Flowers stands undamaged as now-homeless citizens camp in a tent shelter

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#15 A woman opens the door to her Mercedes on Sacramento Street while horses killed by falling rubble lie in the street.

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#16 On the Embarcadero.

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#17 Shoppers cross Drumm St on Market St while men busily work at the monumental task of rebuilding a destroyed city.

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#18 People walk through rubble on Geary St

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#19 Some business people and a young kid face the camera while fire consumes a building on the corner of Franklin St and Hayes St.

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#20 Residents take to the grass at Lafayette Park to get a view of the massive fires engulfing the city while a Muni bus stops below.

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#21 People mill around Lotta’s Fountain, which served as a meeting place after the quake

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#22 Two girls stand before the partially destroyed Sharon Building in Golden Gate Park while students work on their art projects inside.

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#23 Pedestrians cross Jones St towards a pile of rubble on Market Street. The Hibernia Bank building is burned out, but still standing strong.

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#24 Rubble at the Mint.

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#25 People stroll by the original adobe Mission Dolores which survived, while the brick church next door was destroyed

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#26 Market St at Powell.

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#27 South Park from 3rd St.

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#28 A bicyclist rides towards the fallen Valencia St. Hotel and a huge sinkhole that has opened up in the street

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#29 Cars travel down S. Van Ness, which has buckled after the quake.

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#30 Shocked residents walk by parked cars on California St amidst the devastation.

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#31 Horse carriages and cars park in front of Lafayette Park while a destroyed city looms in the background

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#32 The US Mint stands like a rock in a sea of flames as employees and soldiers fight flames on the roof.

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#33 The DeYoung Building and the Palace Hotel (panorama).

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#34 Cars park in front of the brand new US Courthouse which fared well in the quake.

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#35 People gather in front of the Mint.

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#36 The Hearst Building at 3rd and Market.

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#37 Cable car #455 rests halfway in the partially-detroyed cable car barn.

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#38 The Ferry Building withstood its test surprisingly well, considering the treacherous land it sits on.

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#39 Union Square.

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#40 The Rialto Building on New Montgomery stands tall amid the destruction.

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#41 Some lumber and barrels stuffed in a sinkhole warm pedestrians and carrianges of the hazzard on 18th and Van Ness.

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#42 7th and Mission, where streetcars have recently been put back into service on Mission St and the main post office continues cleanup work.

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#43 9th and Brannan.

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#44 Union St up from Steiner St.

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#45 Sutter from Grant.

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#46 Van Ness and Vallejo.

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#47 Columbia Square.

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#48 Jefferson Square.

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#49 The Call Building.

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#50 The Saint Francis Hotel from Union Square (panorama).

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#51 Union Square.

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#52 California and Grant. Singfat is quick to reopen, if even just a temporary stand on top of the rubble so they could reclaim their territory.

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#53 Bluxome near 6th St.

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#54 A lost dog watches a military unit from the US Navy’s cutter Bear assemble for duty at Bush Street and Jones Street while a woman goes about her day.

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#55 Looking down California St. at the aftermath.

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#56 Spectators fill O’Farrell Street to watch the billowing smoke inch closer towards the Call Building.

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#57 First business back on Market St. Hughson & Merton manufactured bicycles & buggies also became known as world’s first Ford dealer.

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#58 A Muni bus heads for a giant sinkhole on Van Ness below Vallejo while workers clear up debris from the damaged St. Brigid Church.

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#59 Fire has entered the Call Building.

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#60 Looking west on Market from New Montgomery St.

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#61 The Mission Relief Headquarters at 25th and Guerrero after its daily food distribution.

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#62 Pedestrians cross Jones St towards a pile of rubble on Market Street. The Hibernia Bank building is burned out, but still standing strong.

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#63 Lotta’s Fountain and Chronicle Building .

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#64 Streetcar #953 passes #1815 on Market Street with the Flood Building still standing after surviving raging fire on all sides.

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#65 Market and Fremont St.

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#66 The band stand at Golden Gate Park.

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#67 Kearny St. with the Sentinel Building under construction.

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#68 Debris is cleaned up on 3rd St.

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#69 Stockton and Market facing the Phelan Building.

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#70 Nothing but the steel trucks of the cable cars remain after intense fires burned through California St. between Polk St. and Larkin St.

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#71 The Call Building from Market St. and Grant St.

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#72 Two men gaze curiously over the fence at the salvaged furniture strewn around the yard of the James Flood Mansion.

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#73 Employees returned to the Shreve Building to pick up the pieces while photographer Richard Wigham photographs the charred remains of a human corpse in the intersection of Post and Grant.

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#74 West on Market St. from Steuart St.

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#75 Oakland’s First Baptist Church

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