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1906 Disaster Pictures Available for Digital Licensing or purchase.

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141.

Title: South of Market area. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060197.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: South of Market area. First day of the disaster. This section will be consumed by the fire seen in the distance the same day.




142.

Title: I can handle this. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060198.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: A young man has assembled a stove from the most basic elements. Thousands did the same.




143.

Title: Refugees watch their city burn. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060199.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Refugees watch their city burn.




144.

Title: Onlookers and refugees watch the fires on the second day. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060199.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Onlookers and refugees watch the fires on the second day. The main one (left) has already consumed downtown and the civic center and is now ravaging North Beach. The smoke on the right is from the Mission District fire.




145.

Title: -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060201.jpg

Owning Institution: SFMUSEUM.ORG

Description:




146.

Title: Victim -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060202.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Sometimes the flames moved faster than people could escape them. However, this could also be the body of someone summarily executed by the military and which was later cremated as the conflagration swept through this area.




147.

Title: -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060203.jpg

Owning Institution: SFMUSEUM.ORG

Description:




148.

Title: Crowded ferry leaves the burning city. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060204.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: A ferry crowded with refugees leaves San Francisco as the city continues to burn.




149.

Title: Mechanics Pavilion Hospital -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060205.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: The Mechanics Pavilion, a major exhibition hall that was converted into a provisional hospital on the morning of the quake. These hospital beds were brought over from the destroyed Central Emergency Hospital, which was located at City Hall--now in ruins--across the street.




150.

Title: Scene outside the Mechanics Pavilion -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060205.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Beds and supplies were dragged from the ruins of City Hall across the street where the city’s Central Emergency Hospital was located.




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1906 Disaster Pictures Available for Licensing

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