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Today marks 106 years since the San Francisco Earthquake rocked our city. The death toll from the disaster is estimated to be above 3,000, representing the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California’s history.
Pictured here: Arnold Genthe’s Looking up Market Street towards Twin Peaks, 1906
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More photos from SFMOMA’s collection:

Arnold Genthe, Untitled, 1906

Willard E. Worden, Earthquake Damage to Union Street, 1906

Grove Karl Gilbert, Richard Lewis Humphrey, John Stephen Sewell, Frank Soulé, The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906…, 1907
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sfmoma:

Today marks 106 years since the San Francisco Earthquake rocked our city. The death toll from the disaster is estimated to be above 3,000, representing the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California’s history.

Pictured here: Arnold Genthe’s Looking up Market Street towards Twin Peaks, 1906

(via SFMOMA)

More photos from SFMOMA’s collection:

Arnold Genthe, Untitled, 1906

Willard E. Worden, Earthquake Damage to Union Street, 1906

Grove Karl Gilbert, Richard Lewis Humphrey, John Stephen Sewell, Frank Soulé, The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906…, 1907

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