Rare color photos of San Francisco's '06 quake carnage

A volunteer at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has made a fantastic discovery: perhaps the only color photographs of the devastation in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing pulls together the original story and some links, including to a piece in the San Francisco Chronicle that says "the images, taken by photography pioneer Frederick Ives, appear to be the earliest color photographs of San Francisco ever taken."