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Fire in the business section. [verso:] In the darkest hour the cry was for dynamite. The country was scoured for it as a thirsty horde scours a country for wells. Blocks of fine buildings were, under the direction of navy and army officers, blown into ruins with as little thought of their value as if they had been of tissue paper, while the very owners welcomed the destruction.--Collier's Weekly. [Market St. between Fourth and Fifth Sts during fire. Emporium department store, left. Postcard.]

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Title: Fire in the business section. [verso:] In the darkest hour the cry was for dynamite. The country was scoured for it as a thirsty horde scours a country for wells. Blocks of fine buildings were, under the direction of navy and army officers, blown into ruins with as little thought of their value as if they had been of tissue paper, while the very owners welcomed the destruction.--Collier's Weekly. [Market St. between Fourth and Fifth Sts during fire. Emporium department store, left. Postcard.]
Creator: S.F. Ruins Publishing Co
Contributor: S.F. Ruins Publishing Co
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906
Publication Information: CaliforniaHistoricalSociety, North Baker Research Library, 678 Mission Street,San Francisco, CA 94105-4014; http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/collections/northbaker_research.html
Contributing Institution: California Historical Society
Collection: 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection: Selections from the California Historical Society
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Shelf location: SF -- Earthquake (1906) -- Fire Postcards No. 1
Type: image
Format: 9 x 14 cm.
Form/Genre: Photographs
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb4b69p0bv
FN-33754
chs00001250_40a.tif
Subject: Earthquakes--California--San Francisco--Photographs
Fire fighters--Photographs
Fires (burning)--Photographs
San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906--Photographs
Place: Market Street (San Francisco, Calif.)
Pictorial works
San Francisco (Calif.)
A0112

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