Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire Size:24x18 Lawrence port at the very

Lawrence port at the very moment Confederate agents were slipping across its docks

a vice presidency he would scarcely live to serve

this chromolithograph reanimates the Genoese mariner for a Chicago crowd hungry to crown four centuries of conquest with white-plaster pavilions and electric light — the Admiral repackaged as the patron saint of American arrival

1839 — a Jacksonian appointee rendered in the sober gravity befitting the bench

Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire Size:24x18 Lawrence port at the veryDestruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire a documentary view of the April 1906 catastrophe, when a city built on gold rush bravado buckled along the fault line and then surrendered the rest of itself to three days of fire. The image carries the strange hush of a metropolis reduced to grid and ash. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional