San Francisco Earthquake Images for Sale

161.		Title: The Waterfront and the lower South of Market area -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060216.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: The waterfront and the lower South of Market region in flames. Despite all odds, Naval Lt. Frederick Freeman’s men and the SFFD were able to hold back the inferno, saving the wharves and the vital Southern Pacific rail sheds there.

162.		Title: People watch the fire's progress. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060217.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: People in what appears to be the lower Mission District watch the progress of the flames.

163.		Title: Chinese watch the fire as it climbs up toward Chinatown -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060218.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Chinese watch the fire as it climbs up toward Chinatown. Shortly afterwards, the dynamiting of structures would begin under the direction of an inebriated John Bermingham to form firebreaks. According to Naval Lt. Frederick Freeman, the buildings had not been fully evacuated before being blown up by Bermingham, and the young officer saw the victims’ bodies hurtling high into the air by the blasts.

164.		Title: Cleaning up the streets. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060219.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Men clearing up after the fire. The person in the foreground may or may not be an Army officer supervising the work.

165.		Title: Happy to reach high ground--and away from the flames. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060220.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Happy to reach high ground--and away from the flames.

166.		Title: Buildings small and large are taken by the flames. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060221.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Buildings small and large are taken by the flames.

167.		Title: Evacuating the Pacific Postal Telegraph Building -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060222.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: The building on the left with the ornamental tower is where Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Company had its offices. Unknown to people outside the Army, General Funston was using the Pacific Cable--uninjured in the quake--to send messages to the War Department. These telegrams had to first go around the world to reach Washington D.C. As a consequence, Japan, Russian, Germany, Great Britain, etc. were reading news about the disaster before President Theodore Roosevelt did. As flames approached (around noon), the men and equipment were evacuated from the building.

168.		Title: Rescuers and gawkers. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060223.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: A crowd watches as a team of men work to find survivors in a collapsed building.

169.		Title: Cordon sanitaire -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060224.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: In the distance, one can see a double cordon of soldiers keeping people away from the burning downtown district.

170.		Title: Small refugee camp. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060225.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Small refugee camp in one of the city's parks.

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