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bhrgunatha · 2932 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Great San Francisco Earthquake: Photographs From 110 Years Ago
Fascinating pictures. What jumps out is the amount of fire damage.
user-inactivated · 2931 days ago · link ·
This is why it was called the "Great San Francisco Fire" for many years afterwards. Nobody wanted to bring mention to the earthquakes, and for the first half of the 1900's the descriptions mentioned a massive fire that burnt the place to the ground. In small fine print elsewhere it would mention the earthquake.