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The six never-published images were snapped by photography leading light Frederick Eugene Ives several months as soon as the April 1906 lofty earthquake, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. for the most part were taken from the roof of the inn anywhere Ives stayed through an October 1906 visit.They were stowed amid other items donated by Ives schoolboy, Herbert, and naked appearing in 2009 by citizen Museum of American History volunteer Anthony Brooks while he was cataloguing the collection.Although hand-colored photographs of the quakes destruction grasp surfaced beforehand, Ives labor is probably the lone faithful color documentary evidence, Shannon Perich, junior curator of the Smithsonians photography history collection, told the Chronicle.She says Ives was single of barely a little photographers experimenting with color photography into the prematurely 20th century and with the intention of his San Francisco images were inevitable to happen viewed through a 3-D device he made-up but which not at all became a profit-making achievement.Can you imagine how shocking these were? she believed.