Collapse of the 4-story Valencia Hotel produced one of the greatest single tragedies of the earthquake.

The exact number of dead will never be known, since fire swept through before rescue workers could get everyone out of the wreckage.

 

 

Spring 1906

Eastman Kodak

Early Photography

Arnold Genth

News of the Quake

225,00 Injured

Area of Damage

City on Fire

Path of Destruction

Valencia Hotel

 

 

 

 

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