San Francisco Earthquake Images for Sale

131.		Title: Grant Avenue -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060186.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Troops watch helplessly as Chinatown burns and the flames continue to advance beyond, building by building. This same fire will climb Nob Hill that evening and destroy the mansions of San Francisco's wealthiest citizens.

132.		Title: Kindling -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060187.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Wooden houses destroyed in the earthquake provide ready fuel for the expanding conflagration.

133.		Title: Witnesses to the death of a city. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060188.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: For three days and nights, San Franciscans watched as their city disappeared, neighborhood by neighborhood, district by district.

134.		Title: Nothing to do, Nellie. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060189.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: A soldier on horseback watches the inferno.

135.		Title: Here it comes! -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060190.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: The conflagration in the South of Market region spreads, heading toward the Mission District.

136.		Title: Ripe for demolition. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060191.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: A fire-damaged building with a dangerous wall leaning out over the street will soon be demolished by dynamite.

137.		Title: Downtown San Francisco begins to burn as well. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060192.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: By late morning of the first day, downtown San Francisco began to burn as well.

138.		Title: Wagon diet. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060194.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Huge fissures in the streets caused by the earthquake were a hazzard.

139.		Title: Wooden houses askew. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060195.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: The buildings most subject to destruction in the 1906 earthquake were the wooden structures built on the alluvial soil or landfill ground in city's eastern half (the majority of those citizens killed in the earthquake were in wooden, not brick, structures). The houses seen here would later serve as fuel for the conflagration that arose in the aftermath of the tremor.

140.		Title: Crowd of gawkers. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060196.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: A large crowd of people on Market Street, mostly men, watch the flames consuming downtown San Francisco.

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