| The Awful Horror of an Earthquake | Frontispiece |
| A Panorama of the Ruins | Frontispiece |
| Business District of San Francisco | Frontispiece |
| Former Mayor James D. Phelan | 11 |
| Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz | 11 |
| Looking East on Market Street | 12 |
| View from Fifth and Market Streets | 12 |
| Market Street, Scene of Ruins | 31 |
| United States Guards in Charge of Dead | 32 |
| Street Torn Up by Earthquake | 41 |
| Stockton Street | 42 |
| Grant Avenue | 42 |
| Mission Street | 43 |
| O’Farrell Street | 43 |
| Looking North from Sixth and Market Streets | 44 |
| The Orpheum Theatre | 44 |
| San Francisco on Fire | 53 |
| Destroyed Wholesale Houses | 54 |
| Cracks in Earth | 63 |
| Ruins of Emporium Building | 63 |
| Map—Bird’s-Eye View of San Francisco | 64 |
| Ruins of Hall of Justice | 65 |
| Looking Down Market Toward Call Building | 66 |
| From California Street Toward Call Building | 66 |
| Market Street Before the Disaster | 75 |
| The Devouring Flames | 76 |
| Mark Hopkins Institute, Nob Hill | 85 |
| United States Mint | 86 |
| New Postoffice Building | 87 |
| Jefferson Square | 88 |
| Chronicle Building | 97 |
| St. Francis Hotel (Before the Earthquake) | 97 |
| Ferry House | 98 |
| Free Water | 115 |
| Distributing Clothes | 115 |
| Wires Destroyed | 116 |
| Military Camp | 116 |
| Kitchens in the Street | 133 |
| Wing of City Hall, Crumbled | 133 |
| Cattle Killed | 134 |
| St. John’s Church, Ruined | 134 |
| Camp Kitchen in Ball Park | 151 |
| Shacks in Golden Gate Park | 151 |
| Governor Pardee | 152 |
| Major General Adolphus Greely | 152 |
| Refugees on Telegraph Hill | 169 |
| General Funston and Wife | 170 |
| Vendome Hotel, San Jose | 187 |
| Postoffice, San Jose | 188 |
| Corner of Baptist Church | 205 |
| Kearney Street, San Francisco | 205 |
| Ferry Building | 206 |
| Military Quarters | 206 |
| Randolph Storage | 223 |
| Switchboard Destroyed | 223 |
| St. Dominici Church, Freak with Steeple | 224 |
| St. Dominici Church, Wrecked | 224 |
| Chinese Refugees | 241 |
| Flat Building, Sunk | 242 |
| Seeking Lost Friends | 259 |
| All that Was Left of a Fine Residence | 259 |
| Soldiers’ Encampment | 260 |
| Alameda Park | 260 |
| Dolores Mission | 277 |
| Wreck and Ruin | 278 |
| Wreck and Ruin | 278 |
| Crack in Earth | 295 |
| Ghoulish Thieves Looting the Dead | 296 |
| Effect of Earthquake on Modern Steel Building | 313 |
| Vesuvius During Recent Eruption | 314 |
| Road Leading to Vesuvius Before Eruption | 314 |
