Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire old NOLA print the spires of Trinity and

the spires of Trinity and the early towers of Wall Street rising behind like the counting-house cathedrals of a republic still tallying its fortune

Cathedral of Commerce Through the Archway of Power frames the Woolworth Building's Gothic spire through the muscular stone arch of the Manhattan Municipal Building — a 1910s tableau in which civic authority and mercantile ambition stare each other down across Park Row

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

Charles Sumner 1874

half a century after his death

Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire old NOLA print the spires of Trinity andDestruction 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