The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a 7.8 magnitude quake in which about 3,000 people died and over 80% of the city was destroyed.
A few weeks later, George Lawrence took this 160-degree panorama from a kite 2000 feet (600 m) above San Francisco Bay. It shows the entire city on a single 17-by-48-inch contact print made from a single piece of film. The camera used weighed 49 pounds (22 kg) and used a celluloid-film plate. Each print sold for $125 and Lawrence made at least $15,000 (US$ 395,055.56 in 2016) in sales from this one photograph.
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The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a 7.8 magnitude quake in which about 3,000 people died and over 80% of the city was destroyed.
A few weeks later, George Lawrence took this 160-degree panorama from a kite 2000 feet (600 m) above San Francisco Bay. It shows the entire city on a single 17-by-48-inch contact print made from a single piece of film. The camera used weighed 49 pounds (22 kg) and used a celluloid-film plate. Each print sold for $125 and Lawrence made at least $15,000 (US$ 395,055.56 in 2016) in sales from this one photograph.