He sold prints of his San Francisco shot for $125 a piece (more than $3,000 today), and eventually made almost half a million dollars, in today’s money, from the image.

Let’s consider an ancient bit of black-and-white footage, filmed in San Francisco in the spring of 1906, barely one week before the Great Earthquake and Fire. ... As the camera — which has been ...

Shortly after the Great Earthquake rocked San Francisco 109 years ago, John Henry Mentz grabbed his camera and set out amid the destruction. Working as a staff photographer for United Railroads ...

On April 18, 1906, a violent 7.8 magnitude earthquake leveled the city of San Francisco.; Nearly 3,000 people died from the quake and subsequent fires that spread through the urban sprawl.

Our trip into the past begins on a San Francisco streetcar built in 1895. ... "You can see when people turn to look at the camera, ... 1906, the great San Francisco earthquake struck.

For a century no one knew exactly when this mesmerizing movie of San Francisco was made, or who made it. The camera moves like a phantom, drifting steadily from 8th and Hyde down Market Street ...

On Saturday night, a small crowd was expected to fill a 120-seat theater in Fremont, California, to watch a movie unlike any other on the big screen, one that offers a fresh look at a tragic ...

The rare footage of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake will end up in the Library of Congress. First, it's premiering at the Edison Theater at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum.

It might be hard to fathom the devastation caused by the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco. The statistics on the destruction are so overwhelming that they're almost unbelievable. According to ...

Ansel Adams, age 4, survived the deadly 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but was tossed face-first into a garden wall, giving him what his friend Cedric Wright would call an "earthquake nose." ...

Extra: The 1906 earthquake strikes 01:14. You're about to see a remarkable footnote to history: a film made more than a hundred years ago on Market Street, San Francisco's main thoroughfare.