Hordes of people were displaced they camped out at Golden Gate Park Mary Exa wrote that sixteen little babies were born in the Park the day after the quake and one woman had triplets.Įdith Irvine overwhelmed my imagination. He came back, saw what they had done, called them out and shot them dead. The big fire in the mission was caused by a man and woman who, after being made to put out the first fire they made, built another as soon as the policeman left. Martial law went into effect, with no due process regarding crime. The picture of the horses killed by the falling bricks is the most famous photograph of Edith Irvine’s.
The most pathetic of all were the poor half-clad women clasping little infants in their arms and begging for mercy. Streams of people in white and colored garments poured into the streets and for a time we remained, a mourning, groaning, sobbing, wailing, weeping and praying crowd. With martial law in effect, Irvine took great risks in documenting the destruction.Ī few sentences from a letter written on by Mary Exa Atkins Campbell head every chapter. She had to be surreptitious, because the city government wanted to minimize both the death toll and the damage. April 18, when the shaking and quaking of the 1906 Earthquake began.Ī photojournalist at heart, she went into the city and started to take pictures. In a mighty strange convergence, Edith, 22, was in a boat about to dock at 5:12 a.m. Through this book I learned about Edith Irvine, an extraordinary photographer. It is historical fiction at its best: a tragic and fascinating story based on and including primary sources.
Kristiana Gregory’s YA book, Earthquake at Dawn, was my bonus read this month.
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