Title

City Hall - Photographer in foreground - Tall brick chimneys left standing', .

Caption

'City Hall - Photographer in foreground - Tall brick chimneys left standing', 1906. A major earthquake struck San Francisco, California, USA, on 18 April 1906. As well as damaging many buildings, the quake ruptured gas lines, causing fires to break out. As water mains had also been damaged, firefighters had little chance of fighting the blaze, which went on to destroy some 25,000 buildings. In all, the earthquake and fires killed an estimated 3000 people - the most to lose their lives in a natural disaster in US history - and made more than half the city's 400,000 population homeless. Stereocard.

Date

1906

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F13_428

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

60,0Mb (3,0Mb) / 15,1in x 15,4in / 4535 x 4623 (300dpi)

Keywords

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