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The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire – Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco website The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire Archived August 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine – Bancroft Library Mark Twain and the San Francisco Earthquake – Shapell Manuscript Foundation
Dennis T. Sullivan (1852 - 1906) was the Chief of the San Francisco Fire Department in 1906. [1] He was mortally wounded during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, when a neighboring building collapsed onto the fire station that housed the Chief's official apartment. Sullivan was a Blacksmith when he joined the Fire Department at 25 years old. [2]
On 18 April 1906, the morning of the great San Francisco earthquake, Genthe, with his cameras and studio destroyed, borrowed a hand-held camera and photographed the destruction across the city. Of his over 180 surviving, sharp-focus photographs of San Francisco, probably his most famous image is "San Francisco, April 18th, 1906," which shows a ...
On this day in economic and business history... "All San Francisco May Burn" -- The New York Times, April 19, 1906, the day after the earthquake: At midnight the fire still roars. Fleeing ...
On April 18, 1906, San Franciscans were awoken at 5:11 a.m. by what would become the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history.
Franklin Hall, the committee's final venue. This Committee of Fifty, sometimes referred to as Committee of Safety, Citizens' Committee of Fifty or Relief and Restoration Committee of Law and Order, was called into existence by Mayor Eugene Schmitz during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
San Francisco Earthquake & Fire: April 18, 1906 is an American short black-and-white documentary silent film. The film documents the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake . This film is "narrated" with the standard text slides between scenes .
1906 is a 2004 American historical novel written by James Dalessandro. [1] [2] With a 38-page outline and six finished chapters, he pitched it around Hollywood in 1998 for a film by the same name, based upon events surrounding the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.