100 years

On April 18, 1906, shortly after 5:00 a.m., a great earthquake struck San Francisco and a long narrow band of towns, villages, and countryside to the north-northwest and south-southeast. Many buildings were wrecked; hundreds of people were killed; electric power lines and gas mains were broken. Fires broke out and burned wildly for days, utterly out of control because of severed water mains.

I found these photos of San Francisco in an album that belonged to my Grandmother. She was born in 1941. I believe the photos belonged to her Grandmother, who was arrested at one point for taking an active role in the Women's Suffrage Movement.