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Caption: "Refugee Hut," shows four people standing in the doorway of a hut built after the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Brigham Young Monument, Salt Lake City.," c. 1916. Designed by Cyrus Edwin Dallin, the Brigham Young Monument (also known as the Pioneer Monument) stands before the Salt Lake Temple in this photograph. The statue was first displayed at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, and moved to its post at Main and South Temple Streets in Salt Lake City in 1897.

Date: 1916

Caption: "Dragons Mouth - Yellowstone Park," c. 1923. This hot spring originates deep underground. Rising gas and steam create pressure bubbles within the mud of the cavern. When they burst against the cave roof, they emit a growling, booming sound. Steam also drifts from the cavern entrance, creating the illusion of smoke from a dragon's mouth.

Date: 1923

Caption: "Tioga Lake." Glacial lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in Mono County, California, within the Inyo National Forest.

Date: 1927

No Caption: A view of the reconstruction on Market Street after the 1906 earthquake and fires, c. 1907.

Date: 1907

Caption: " Educational Building," with marching band and Tower of Jewels in the background at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Mt. Tamalpais." Shows the Muir Woods Railway leading to the Tavern of Tamalpais, Marin County, c. 1907.

Date: 1907

Caption: "Court of Palms," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Date: 1915

Caption: "General View - Night," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Palace of Horticulture," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Date: 1915