Soldiers outside Hall of Justice in San Francisco 1906 DA-SN-03-00956
US Army soldiers from the Presidio pose for a group shot, with their Springfield 03 rifles, in front of the ruins of the Hall of Justice. The troops aided the local police force in keeping order and protection for the citizens of the devastated city. On April 18, 1906 at 5:15 AM a quake of 8.25 on the Richter scale hit San Francisco. Greater destruction came from the fires afterwards. The city burned for three days. The combination destroyed 490 city blocks and 25,000 buildings, leaving 250,000 homeless and killing between 450 and 700. Estimated damages, over $350 million. DA-SN-03-00956
- Date
- 1906-04-18
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,000 × 2,413 pixels
Public domain
Reason: public domain: US.
This status rests on the photo's publication history, as researched by Wikimedia Commons. Check it before commercial use.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"Soldiers outside Hall of Justice in San Francisco 1906 DA-SN-03-00956" (1906-04-18). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soldiers_outside_Hall_of_Justice_in_San_Francisco_1906_DA-SN-03-00956.JPEGNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 161361.
More like this
Soldiers in San Francisco 1906 ruins DA-SN-03-00962
1906-04-18 · Wikimedia Commons
San Francisco 1906 fire 02 DA-SN-03-00958
1906-04-18 · Wikimedia Commons

San Francisco Earthquake of 1906: Last message sent in front of Hall of Justice before the approach of the fire. Stakes show where bodies were temporarily buried
c. 1906 · U.S. National Archives

San Francisco Earthquake of 1906: United States Army officers on relief work, Hamilton School Headquarters. Colonel Febiger and assistants
c. 1906 · U.S. National Archives

Sanfranciscoearthquake1906
1906 · Wikimedia Commons

Soldiers looting 1906 fire
1906-04 · Wikimedia Commons

Ruins of earthquake and fire, San Francisco, Calif. 1906
1906-04 · Library of Congress

Ruins of California Theatre. Bush St. near Kearny.:(Aftermath damage of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906). Date: 1906 Subject: Earthquakes--California--San Francisco--Photographs Fires (damage)--Photographs San Francisco (Calif.)--Pictorial works San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906--Photo
1906 · Wikimedia Commons