San Francisco Earthquake Images for Sale

181.		Title: Dragging his remaining possessions. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060236.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Without the use of a wagon or wheelbarrow, this poor gentleman drags a trunk, perhaps stuffed with all his surviving possessions, down the street. Many people gave up after a few blocks, leaving hundreds of trunks on the streets. People curious about the contents of these abandoned possessions were sometimes shot as looters.

182.		Title: Ambulance wagon. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060272.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Assisted by a nurse, a sick or wounded person is loaded aboard an ambulance during the disaster. This person was fortunate to receive such service, as the number of injured people overwhelmed the surviving medical establishment's resources.

183.		Title: The US Mint, a 1906 survivor -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060301.jpg Owning Institution: SFMUSEUM.ORG Description: A.B. Mullett was the architect for this U.S. Mint (5th & Mission Streets). The Mint formally opened November 5, 1874, thirty-two years later, during San Francisco's great earthquake and fire, mint employees and soldires fought a seven house battle with a one-inch fire hose, to save this building from the blaze.

184.		Title: Watching the Cosmopolitan House Burn -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060302.jpg Owning Institution: SFMUSEUM.ORG Description: Crowds of men with their hands in their pockets stand in front of the U.S. Mint and watch the Cosmopolitan House, southwest corner of Fifth and Mission Streets, catch fire and burn to the ground.

185.		Title: Women Watch and Wait In Fear of Having to Abandon Their Homes -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060303.jpg Owning Institution: SFMUSEUM.ORG Description: Jack London in his 1906 story describes the smoke from the fire “San Francisco’s burning was a lurid tower visible a hundred miles away.”

186.		Title: Mission Relief Headquarters -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060304.jpg Owning Institution: SFMUSEUM.ORG Description: The barn of James Rolph, Jr., 3416 21st Street, served as the Headquarters of Mission Relief. Relief assistance began almost immediately on April 18th, and by June 30, 1906, twenty-two relief stations were still in operation.

187.		Title: Only a Temporary Home -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060305.jpg Owning Institution: SFMUSEUM.ORG Description: Refugees from the South of Market area with but few personal belongings, join other hapless refugees in temporary make-shift quarters near the bay.

188.		Title: Oh Those Bricks! -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060306.jpg Owning Institution: SFMUSEUM.ORG Description: Rubble from fallen buildings trapped and killed many victims. Here is a scene many weeks after the earthquake where clean-up is in operation. Without gloves, cleaning and stacking bricks was hard on the hands. Many workers sought medical attention!

189.		Title: Women Watch and Wait In Fear of Having to Abandon Their Homes -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060307.jpg Owning Institution: SFMUSEUM.ORG Description: Jack London in his 1906 story describes the smoke from the fire “San Francisco’s burning was a lurid tower visible a hundred miles away.”

190.		Title: Building Skeletons -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060308.jpg Owning Institution: SFMUSEUM.ORG Description: An unknown Billiard Parlor, as seen lower left, and a building that advertised picture frames from its roof have already been through the fire and only the skeleton of the buildings remain.

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