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Fun Fact: History-Making Timing

A desolate landscape with ruined buildings and a stark, leafless tree, suggesting aftermath of destruction, possibly a disaster.

Mokelumne Hill photographer Edith Irvine arrived in San Francisco the morning of the 1906 earthquake. Prints from her glass-plate negatives premiered in 2006 and are seen today at the Mokelumne Hill Library.