Title: Ruins -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060025.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: 1906 Disaster.

Title: One Refugee Camp -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060026.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Army-issued tents would house tens of thousands of refugees. Notice the many clotheslines.

Title: Fire Department -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060027.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: The fire department attempts to keep the fire at Market and Steuart streets from spreading. They failed.

Title: Valencia Street Hotel -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060029.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: The Valencia Street Hotel, between 18th and 19th streets, was a four-story frame structure with a brick foundation, built on a swamp once known during the Mexican colonial period as Laguna de los Dolores or Laguna de Manantial. Flooding from a nearby broken water main and extreme liquefaction due to the already high water table caused the first floors of the hotel to sink into the ground, drowning many of the guests. Only a few survived.

Title: Burning Buildings -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060030.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Many of the fires begun in the 1906 earthquake's aftermath grew and eventually merged into one massive conflagration.

Title: Downtown ablaze. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060031.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: The South of Market fires have combined and will soon march west to consume the entire downtown district.

Title: Waterfront Skyline -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060032.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: The fires near the wharves and the lower South of Market region on the first day of the disaster. The Ferry Building in the foreground would be saved from the flames, principally by the expanse of East Street (now The Embarcadero) and the large open area in front of the structure that provided a safe distance from the nearby fires.

Title: South of Market Fires -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060033.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: At this point on the first day of the disaster the many South of Market fires have merged and become almost unstoppable.

Title: The city's heart now an inferno. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060034.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Downtown San Francisco buring in the 1906 disaster.

Title: View of Approaching Fire -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060036.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: 1906 disaster. Looking towards the corner of Pine and Powell streets. The fire is approaching from the east.