Title: Any survivors? -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060206.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: A crowd of men work to remove the wreckage of a lodging house in order to get to the trapped survivors.

Title: Leaning house. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060207.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: As badly damaged as this house was by the earthquake, it fared better than some of its neighbors.

Title: Once a family's home. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060208.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Once a family's home.

Title: Row of wooden houses damaged by the quake. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060209.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Row of wooden houses damaged by the quake. This scene was typical in the South of Market region after the quake.

Title: Leaning lodging house. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060210.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Besides often being termite infested, the older lodging houses in the South of Market region also sat on inferior foundations, a recipe for disaster.

Title: Street fissures in the 1906 disaster. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060211.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Street fissures in the 1906 disaster.

Title: Victim of the disaster. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060212.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: A victim of the 1906 disaster.

Title: Collapsed lodging house. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060213.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: A collapsed lodging house near San Francisco's Civic Center (the dome of the Hall of Records can be seen in the background).

Title: The burning oil storage tanks at Meigg’s Wharf. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060214.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: The burning oil storage tanks at Meigg’s Wharf. Naval Lt. Frederick Freeman and his small group could not stop the North Beach fire from reaching the docks there and were forced to pull back to the Old North Waterfront and make a stand near Telegraph Hill.

Title: Firemen and troops have pulled back -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060215.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Firemen and troops have pulled back and now watch dishearten as the Call Building begins to go up in flames. Nevertheless one engine company can be seen in the distance, still throwing a stream on the fire against all odds.