1906 San Francisco Earthquake Film

Duration: 600

Year Published: 1900

Complete Record: This contains footage of the city in ruins after the 1906 earthquake. Shots of burned, collapsed, smoldering buildings. remaining walls falling down. St. Patrick’s church destroyed in the Mission. Meals cooked, served, eaten in the streets. relief workers eating and drinking in front of the wreckage. Market and Powell. wagons, horses, old autos, busy street, packed cable cars, ferry boats of refugees from SF getting off in Oakland. title card reads “Arrival of refugees at Oakland”. Huge crowd of people exiting the dock.