One of Lawrence 's world-renowned photographs is of the ruins of San Francisco , California after the 1906 earthquake . It is a 160-degree panorama from a kite taken 2000 feet ( 600 m ) in the air above the San Francisco Bay that showed the entire city on a single 17-by-48-inch contact print made from a single piece of film . Each print sold for $ 125 and Lawrence made at least $ 15,000 ( US$ in ) in sales from this one photograph . The camera used in this photograph weighed 49 pounds ( 22 kg ) and used a celluloid-film plate
1906 earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
George R. Lawrence