Title: Men walking or scurrying away from the fire. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060226.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: It is not certain what we see here. Looters? Civilian or Army dynamiters? It is too blurred for a definitive judgement.

Title: People make a last minute dash to save their belongings -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060227.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: People make a last minute dash to save their belongings--or obtain loot--before the flames overtake them.

Title: Exhausted refugees. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060228.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Exhausted refugees in the middle of the devastated city with their salvaged goods, not knowing where to go.

Title: Ferry in drydock knocked by the quake. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060229.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Ferry in drydock knocked by the quake.

Title: View from Lafayette Square. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060230.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: People watch the progress of the flames on the second day of the disaster from Lafayette Park, two blocks west of Van Ness Avenue.

Title: Returning to the city. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060231.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: After escaping by ferry to Oakland, many of the refugees returned after the fires had been put out to see what remained of their homes and businesses.

Title: Closer shot of 60227 -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060232.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: This is altered version of 60227, darkened a bit for an alternative effect (The Museum of the City of San Francisco did not perform the modification, but simply reproduced the two different images of the same scene).

Title: An exhausted elderly man. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060233.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: An exhausted elderly man. He seems to be walking up a hill, away from the charred ruins of the shattered city below, aided by a cane.

Title: Street distorted by the earthquake. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060234.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Street distorted by the earthquake.

Title: Cleaning up the debris. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060235.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Hundreds of men were impressed at the point of a gun to clean up the streets. Objections by numerous citizens put an end to this form of slave labor, and the impressed men gradually gave way to hired hands or homeless refugees working for their camp food.