Sujet
Looking north up Mason St. from Eddy - Ruins of the Fairmont $4,000,000 hotel', 1906.
Légende
'Looking north up Mason St. from Eddy - Ruins of the Fairmont $4,000,000 hotel', 1906. The almost-complete Fairmont Hotel survived the earthquake, but the interior was heavily damaged by fire, and opening was delayed until 1907. 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
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19F13_417
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
60,7Mo (2,5Mo) / 39,1cm x 38,8cm / 4624 x 4588 (300dpi)