San Francisco Earthquake Images for Sale

71.		Title: Posing and taking pictures -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060080.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Here we see two men in an expensive touring car, posing for the camera, while a profession photographer with a large, caped view camera stands ready to take one of the ruins, or of tourists in the ruins.

72.		Title: The gutted hulk of the Palace Hotel. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060081.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: This is a shot of the fire-gutted Palace Hotel, taken shortly before it was demolished to make way for its replacement. When it opened in 1876, the Palace Hotel was not only the largest hotel in the world, but also the most modern and luxurious. It survived the earthquake and had enough water stored in its massive underground cisterns and roof tanks to survive the fire as well, but the San Francisco Fire Department used its private hydrants in a vain attempt to keep the flames from reaching Market Street. They failed, and so the great Palace Hotel was doomed.

73.		Title: The shattered remains of City Hall -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060082.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Several policemen, soldiers, and one civilian pose among the ruins of San Francisco’s City Hall, a magnificent, but flimsily built structure that was constructed during another graft-ridden period in town's history.

74.		Title: Business as usual amid the carcasses of buildings -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060083.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Life goes on, and as the city rebuilds, advertising signs go up and people set up temporary business in tents or the hulks of buildings.

75.		Title: City Hall after the earthquake. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060084.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Here we see City Hall after the earthquake, but before the fire has reached it. It appears that one shop owner is busily loading his wagon with what goods he can before the neighborhood goes up in flames.

76.		Title: City Hall, after the earthquake and fire. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060085.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: City Hall, after the earthquake and fire.

77.		Title: City Hall in the background of the ruined Civic Center after the fire has swept through. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060086.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: City Hall in the background of the ruined Civic Center after the fire has swept through.

78.		Title: The Ruins of San Francisco. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060087.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: The Ruins of San Francisco. City Hall stands as sentinel over the wreckage.

79.		Title: The refugees return. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060088.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Here, in an unusual photograph, we see people streaming from the Ferry Building. It is at least several days after the disaster, hacks and wagons to service the returning refugees—and a few tourists—are already in place. Many of the people have weary, “shell-shocked” expressions.

80.		Title: People strolling in front of the ruins of City Hall. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060089.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: People take the air. It is well after the disaster—the streets have been cleared—but before major reconstruction has begun.

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