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In 1903, his family moved two miles west to a new home near the Seacliff neighborhood, just south of the Presidio Army Base.

The home had a " splendid view " of the Golden Gate and the Marin Headlands.

San Francisco was devastated by the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Uninjured in the initial shaking, the four-year-old Ansel Adams was tossed face-first into a garden wall during an aftershock three hours later, breaking his nose.

Among his earliest memories was watching the smoke from the ensuing fire that destroyed much of the city a few miles to the east.

Although a doctor recommended that his nose be re-set once he reached maturity, this was never done ; as a result, Adams's nose remained crooked for his entire life.