This black-and-white historical photograph depicts a long, four-story masonry building with severe structural damage on its right side. The majority of the building remains standing, showing rows of rectangular windows and a flat roofline with decorative molding. A large sign above the ground-floor entrance reads "SAN MARCOS" in capital letters, and another smaller sign further right reads "E.H. HOWARD." The entire right corner of the structure has collapsed, creating a vertical void where the exterior walls have fallen away to reveal splintered wooden floor joists and interior debris. A massive pile of rubble, consisting of bricks, timber, and masonry fragments, is mounded at the base of this collapse. A dark utility pole stands in the foreground to the right, with several wires stretching across the sky. In the lower-right corner, the name "Rick SB" is handwritten in white cursive directly on the image.