David Burkhart

Earthquake Days: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire in 3-D

April 18, 2006, marks the centennial of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. Minutes after the quake, photographers were on the scene, documenting California’s greatest natural disaster. A few had special 3-D cameras, enabling them to record the events of that fateful April in a particularly vivid and affecting medium. Their “stereo views” of the catastrophe, viewed in 3-D through a “stereoscope,” became the way in which many vicariously experienced the quake and its aftermath, from the relative comfort of their own, unshaken parlors. In Earthquake Days, the story of 1906 San Francisco is retold through these rare, original images—magnificently reproduced along with original period newspapers, lithographs, and maps. Most of the stereo views in Earthquake Days are presented both as 3-D photos AND as large, 2-D photos. This huge, full-color coffee-table book includes a 3-D viewer and an illustrated history of this remarkable photographic genre.

“A beautiful book.”–Philip L. Fradkin, author of The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906

For more information about Earthquake Days (ISBN 0977330567), please visit www.1906quake.com