cityofsanfrancisco

Photo depicting the wreckage of Transcontinental Air Transport (T-A-T) Ford 5-AT-B Trimotor named "City of San Francisco" (reg. NC9649 / c/n 5-AT-20) after its fatal crash into Mount Taylor during a thunderstorm on January 18, 1929. All five passengers and three crew aboard the aircraft perished. See: aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19290903-0 Here is another photo of the crash site in the SDASM photostream

I had not realized the extent of the destruction. That's horrendous. Great shot.

LoC has some very early movies of the destruction of the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Scenes in San Francisco. [No. 1]
- www.loc.gov/item/00694427/
or
- hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.00045692

Scenes in San Francisco. [No. 2]
- www.loc.gov/item/00694428/
or
- hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.00045702

These films are part of the Paper Print Collection. From 1893 until 1912, there was no official way to register films for copyright. Films submitted for copyright were printed onto reels of paper.

For an introduction to the Paper Print Collection, see:
blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2014/05/where-it-all-began-the...

"Bird's-eye-view of ruins of San Francisco from captive airship, 600 feet above Folsom " doesn't begin to describe it. Lawrence used a train of 7 large kites to lift his homebuilt 49 pound panoramic camera to altitude, trusting a clockwork to trigger and pan the camera at the right time.

Never walk under a suspended load. Aerotrain empty weight: 46,000 pounds. About 1 Muni bus.