San Francisco Earthquake Images for Sale

111.		Title: Manhole cover in smashed street. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060166.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: This photograph of a smashed street was a common sight in the South of Market area, where liquafaction contorted street and sidewalk pavements.

112.		Title: Fighting the blazes with water from a cistern. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060167.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: An engine company furiously fights a fire downtown with water tapped from a cistern. Cisterns, sewers, and the Bay were usually the only sources of water for the SFFD during the 1906 disaster.

113.		Title: Cheap, second-hand goods for sale. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060168.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: A number of provisional shops sprang up after the disaster, selling family possessions or items pulled from the ruins. Out-of-towners came to take advantage of the many "bargains."

114.		Title: Preparing to resume streetcar service. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060169.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Streets are cleared and overhead electric wires are strung up to prepare for the resumption of streetcar service in San Francisco.

115.		Title: Ruins. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060170.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: While most of the city still lies in ruins, scaffolding has already been erected around the Ferry Building (seen in the distance) to repair the damage it suffered in the earthquake.

116.		Title: First day's conflagration. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060171.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: The many South of Market fires have merged by the early afternoon of the first day of the disaster to become one massive conflagration.

117.		Title: Twins of terror. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060172.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: As horrified citizens look on, two massive fires grow, with a third, samller one, between them.

118.		Title: Fallen city. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060173.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: As the last fires are put out on the third day, the city still smolders. A very atmospheric scene from the 1906 disaster.

119.		Title: Sad march to the Ferry Building -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060174.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: This scene shows crowds of refugees coming to the Ferry Building to catch boats for Oakland. The damage to the Ferry Building is either obscured by the smoke, or the photo was touched up later to hide its wounds from the earthquake. Many photos of the disaster were altered after the disaster as part of the city's campaign to blame almost all of the damage on the post-earthquake fire, not the earthquake itself.

120.		Title: Demolition of ruins -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060175.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: After a good portion of San Francisco had been leveled by explosives or the fires caused by explosives (dozens of fresh blazes were started by the Army's haphazard dynamiting in an inept attempt to form firebreaks), explosives were used again to demolish dangerous, free-standing walls.

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