San Francisco Earthquake Images for Sale

41.		Title: Financial District -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060049.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: View of fire approaching the Financial District.

42.		Title: Victorian survivors. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060050.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: A few houses saved from the flames stand forlornly at Gough and Clay, surrounded by the charred ruins of their neighbors. In the distance, at the top of Nob Hill, are the gutted remains of the Fairmont Hotel.

43.		Title: City Hall -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060051.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: The destroyed City Hall at Leavenworth and McAllister and Grove and Larkin. The iron frame of the building's center and dome was exposed when the bricks fell out during the earthquake.

44.		Title: Market Street -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060052.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Looking down Market Street towards the Ferry Building, now hidden by the thick smoke of the first day's fires.

45.		Title: Cattle gunned down in the streets. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060053.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Carcasses of longhorn steers on Mission and First streets. Escaping from the slaughterhouses near the waterfront, the animals rampaged down city streets before being shot down. One man was gored to death during the stampede.

46.		Title: The City by the Blaze -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060054.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Smoke from the fires now engulfing downtown San Francisco.

47.		Title: The Fairmont Hotel and Hall of Justice. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060055.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: The Fairmont Hotel and Hall of Justice. The severely damaged Hall of Justice in the foreground and the Fairmont Hotel in the background, which had just finished construction and was due to open two weeks later.

48.		Title: Stunned onlookers. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060056.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: San Franciscans walk about, numb after three days of terror and grief, gazing at the remains of their beloved city.

49.		Title: Dresden, Hiroshima, or San Francisco? -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060058.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Here we see the utter devastation wrought by the earthquake and fire in San Francisco.

50.		Title: Where there's this much smoke... -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060059.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: The various fires of the first day have finally become one giant conflagration.

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