A The Burning of San Francisco, California, 1906 – Antique Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A The Burning of San Francisco, California, 1906 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: The burning of San Francisco, April 18, [19]06, view from St. Francis Hotel
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A The Burning of San Francisco, California, 1906
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San Francisco in April 1906 was a busy Pacific port of about 400,000 people, with wharves and warehouses handling grain, lumber, and goods shipped in by rail and sea. Shortly after 5 a.m. on April 18, an earthquake shook the city, and fires broke out in many districts within hours. Broken water mains left firefighters with almost nothing to pump, so crews used dynamite to cut firebreaks, but the flames burned for three days through downtown and many neighborhoods. Tens of thousands of residents lost their homes, and rebuilding began almost at once as city leaders and merchants pressed to restore commerce. This view shows the smoke and ruin that people in the city would remember for a generation as the disaster that defined its recent past.
| Created / published | 1906 |
|---|---|
| Creator | pillsbury picture co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--California |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,191 × 1,159 px · prints to 17 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The burning of San Francisco, April 18, [19]06, view from St. Francis Hotel |
| Reference | CA A The Burning of San Francisco, 1906 |
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