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 presents a view from an elevated position, looking past a foreground of ruins toward a devastated city skyline. In the immediate foreground, two large, white classical statues lie toppled and broken on a stone terrace behind a dark wrought-iron fence. Beyond the fence, a wide expanse of the city is visible, characterized by the skeletal, burnt-out remains of numerous multi-story buildings and standing utility poles. The sky is a pale, hazy blue, and the distant horizon shows the dense architectural ruins of the urban center. Small, light-colored text printed at the bottom right of the photographs reads: "No. 1018. Glimpse of the Fire Devastated Heart of San Francisco from the Huntington Palace on California St.". Below the mounted stereograph, a gray and black color calibration scale is visible within the frame.