Photos: The Great 1906 San Francisco Quake, Now in Living Color
Photographic History Collections / Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
Van Ness Avenue, City Hall
Using modern photographic digital imaging technology, the museum has recreated what it would have been like to view Ives' images through his patented Krömoscop viewer.
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