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Aftermath of the great earthquake, San Francisco, California, USA, 1906.Artist: HC White
Aftermath of the great earthquake, San Francisco, California, USA, 1906. Damage to the spire of the Steiner Street Catholic Church and settled houses. A major earthquake struck San Francisco on 18th 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. Stereoscopic card detail.
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AR977316
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
4123px × 4237px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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1900s
20th century
AMERICA
American
Avenue
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
building
BUILDINGS
CALIFORNIA
Carriage
CATHOLIC
Catholicism
Christian
Christianity
Church
concept
country
DAMAGE
DAMAGED
DESTROYED
Destruction
Disaster
Earthquake
fa?ade
Facade
HC
HC White
HORSE-DRAWN VEHICLE
House
LANE
LOCATION
Monochrome
NATURAL DISASTER
natural phenomena
People
Photograph
Print Collector10
religion
Religious
Road
ROAD TRANSPORT
ROMAN CATHOLIC
ROMAN CATHOLICISM
SAN FRANCISCO
SPIRE
Steeple
Steiner Street
stereoscopic
stereoscopic card
stereoscopic photography
TGN
The Print Collector
transport
TRANSPORTATION
UNITED STATES
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
usa
white
Yerba Buena