Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire old NOLA print and rooftops drawn with the

and rooftops drawn with the cool civic pride of a city watching another country's war from across the river

the banner waves stars and stripes for a Union the candidates could no longer hold together — popular sovereignty stitched onto bunting as the country marched toward Sumter

where the long shadow of the war was kept tended by the men who had walked through it

Ford Field Original Artwork from Bella Frye

Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire old NOLA print and rooftops drawn with theDestruction 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