This black-and-white historical photograph shows a severely damaged urban sidewalk and street. In the left foreground, a horse-drawn wooden carriage is parked on a relatively level section of the street; the horse is dark-colored and faces away from the camera. The central focus is a sidewalk made of large, flat concrete slabs that have buckled and dropped, creating a deep, jagged trench between the sidewalk and the street. To the right of this fissure, a man in a dark suit and hat stands on a stable section of the walkway, looking toward the damage. Further right, a low, ornate wrought-iron fence runs along the edge of the frame. In the background, several utility poles rise above the flat, debris-strewn landscape, with the silhouettes of distant, low-rise buildings and hills visible under a clear sky. Small, faint white text in the bottom-right corner reads "Miles Bros." and includes a number that is partially obscured.