San Franciso, California
April 18, 1906, 5:12 AM
Within hours, more were 3,000 dead and over half the population left homeless.
28,188 buildings destroyed with a monetary loss of over 400 million dollars.

It ls hard to imagine the toll that earthquake took on the people and the city of San Franciso. My grandmother, Anna Melvina Bartlett, was there in the weeks that followed that horrific disaster. Family tradition holds that she was a journalist working for a Seattle newspaper at the time and went to cover the story. She always said that she arrived in San Francisco on the first train that was able to get into the city. Whatever her reason for being there, she photographed the aftermath most likely with her trusted Brownie camera. Take a trip back in time by visitng the 1906 exhibit at the gallery. All prints were made from the original negatives.