San Francisco Fire Sacramento Street 1906-04-18

San Francisco earthquake of 1906. *Looking Down Sacramento St., 1906. verso: "San Francisco: April 18, 1906." From As I Remember by local photographer Arnold Genthe: This photograph shows "the results of the earth quake, the beginning of the fire and the attitude of the people." It was taken the morning of the first day of the fire. Shows Sacramento St. at Miles Place (now Miller Place) near Powell St.:*"I found that my hand cameras had been so damaged by the falling plaster as to be rendered useless. I went to Montgomery Street to the shop of George Kahn, my dealer, and asked him to lend me a camera. 'Take anything you want. This place is going to burn up anyway.' I selected the best small camera, a 3A Kodak Special. I stuffed my pockets with films and started out. Of the pictures I had made during the fire, there are several, I believe, that will be of lasting interest.:There is particularly the one scene that I recorded the morning of the first day of the fire along Sacramento Street, looking toward the Bay which shows, in a pictorially effective composition, the results of the earthquake, the beginning of the fire and the attitude of the people. On the right is a hous

Date

1906-04-18

Archive

Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

photograph

Original size

3,599 × 2,141 pixels

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