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 provides a perspective view looking down a wide, debris-lined city street toward a distant, hazy skyline obscured by smoke or dust. On the left and right sides of the street, the multi-story skeletons of fire-damaged buildings stand with hollowed-out windows and scorched facades. In the foreground, the street surface is cluttered with rubble, and several dark, vertical utility poles remain standing along the sidewalk. Small, light-colored text printed at the bottom right of the photographs reads: "No. 1007. Down California St., from Fairmount Hotel, the Fire Swept District of San Francisco.". Below the mounted stereograph, a gray and black color calibration scale is visible within the frame.