San Francisco Earthquake Images for Sale

31.		Title: Burning Buildings -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060037.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: As buildings burn, the safest place to walk is in the streets.

32.		Title: Sacramento Street -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060039.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Looking down Sacramento Street toward the approaching fire. Earthquake damaged apartments on the right.

33.		Title: Hurrying to escape the firestorm that arose in the wake of the earthquake. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060040.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Hurrying to escape the firestorm that arose in the wake of the earthquake.

34.		Title: Downtown -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060041.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: The smoke from the 1906 fires as seen from the suburbs. It vaguely appears to our modern eyes as the aftermath of a nuclear explosion.

35.		Title: Downtown -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060042.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Smoke arising from the fires of the disaster's first day.

36.		Title: Safes pulled from the ruins. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060043.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Safes were hauled to the streets from buildings and left to cool. Two weeks were required before they could be opened again--any earlier and owners risked instant immolation of their contents.

37.		Title: Burning Buildings -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060044.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Fierce flames engulf more wood frame buildings. Many of the older ones were termite ridden, which made the timbers even more combustible.

38.		Title: Downtown -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060045.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Thick smoke from merging fires.

39.		Title: Call Building -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060046.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: The Call Building, San Francisco's tallest structure in 1906. This is Market Street looking east from 4th Street

40.		Title: California Street -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060047.jpg Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco Description: Looking east along the ruins to California Street. The famous Merchant’s Exchange building is the tallest building to the left.

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