This hand-colored stereograph card features two nearly identical, side-by-side rectangular photographs with rounded corners, mounted on a light-brown, pebble-textured cardboard backing. The image depicts a large, ornate building with significant structural damage, including missing walls and exposed interior wooden scaffolding. In the foreground, two men in dark hats and clothing stand amidst a field of light-colored rubble and bricks that have spilled into the street. To their right, several dark metal safes or trunks are scattered among the debris. The background reveals the scorched, skeletal remains of neighboring structures under a pale, hazy sky. Small, light-colored text printed at the bottom right of the photographs reads: "No. 1026. The New Masonic Temple on Sutter Street badly wrecked by the San Francisco Earthquake.". Below the mounted stereograph, a gray and black color calibration scale is visible within the frame.