San Francisco Earthquake Images for Sale

121.		Title: Idle spectators -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060176.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Senselessly barred from helping firefighters, San Franciscans watch helplessly as their city burns. In those areas where civilian volunteers were eagerly enlisted, the various struggles against the spread of the flames were often successful.

122.		Title: Useless efforts. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060177.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Innumerable attempts were made by people to remove their furniture and other possessions out of earthquake damaged buildings for later transport out of the city. Here we see people huddled behind one such pile of household goods, watching the remorsely approach of the flames. The earlier effort to save possessions was doomed from the outset.

123.		Title: Miniature moving van. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060178.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Wheelbarrows were as much in demand as wagons and baby carriages--any wheeled contrivance was needed to save one's possessions from the encroaching flames.

124.		Title: A respite, not a refuge. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060179.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Parks and cemetaries were used as places of refuges as people moved en mass from the expanding fires. Usually, they had to move on again after several hours because of the rapid progress of the flames.

125.		Title: A -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060180.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: A massive street sinkhole caused by the 1906 earthquake.

126.		Title: Like a huge doll house. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060181.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: The facades of many buildings, especially wooden structures with brick face work, collapsed in the earthquake. Well-built brick buildings actually did very well in the earthquake, and many remain in San Francisco today. Even poorly built brick buildings usually just threw off part of wall--dangerous to pedestrians, but otherwise leaving the structure still standing and its inhabitants still alive.

127.		Title: 1906 San Francisco by night. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060182.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: This long photographic exposure taken of San Francisco while the fires raged in 1906 is one of most dramatic shots from the disaster.

128.		Title: Picture of San Francisco's waterfront, post earthquake. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060183.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: This picture shows the devastation caused by the fire near the waterfront. Note the large number os ships in port that still relied on wind for their principal form of locomotion.

129.		Title: Fires growing. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060184.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: As horrified citizens look on, two massive fires grow, with a third, samller one, between them.

130.		Title: Building ablaze. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060185.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: This is one of the few, close-up shots of the post earthquake fire.

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