A look back at the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

April 18, 1906, the San Francisco earthquake (and subsequent fires) ranks as one of the most significant temblors of all time. At 5:12 a.m., a foreshock occurred with enough force to be felt widely ...
Chicago Tribune

The all-Chicago World Series: How the ‘Hitless Wonders’ pulled off the upset as the Spuds (Cubs) and the White Stockings (White Sox) reached the Fall Classic in 1906

In the fall of 1906, the Cubs and the White Sox were in the World Series — both for the first time. It would be the last Series meeting between teams from the same city until the Yankees and Giants, ...
SFGate

1906 SF quake captured in color by Frederick Ives

The Smithsonian Institution has discovered rare color photographs of the ruins of San Francisco from the 1906 earthquake. The images, taken by photography pioneer Frederick Ives, appear to be the ...
Business Insider

Chilling photos of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fires set the city ablaze

In the early hours of the morning on April 18, 1906, Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area woke amidst an earth-shattering quake. While the 7.8 magnitude earthquake only lasted a minute, it ruptured ...
Mental Floss

In 1906, the Bronx Zoo Put a Black Man on Display in the Primates' House

When the New York Zoological Park (now the Bronx Zoo) opened in September 1906, people visiting the Primates’ House encountered a startling sight. There, amid the cages full of exotic animals, they ...