The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake And Fire
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Author | : Dan Kurzman |
Publisher | : Harper Entertainment |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780061051746 |
Investigates the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, describing the horrible natural disaster and the subsequent fire that raged through the rubble, killing ten thousand people.
Author | : Philip L. Fradkin |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520230606 |
"In this well-researched book, Fradkin contends that it was the people of San Francisco, not the forces of nature, who were responsible for the extent of the destruction and death."--"Booklist."
Author | : Harry Paul Jeffers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
A colorful city -- eighth largest in the country -- reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake and then consumed by flames... In this vivid, fast-paced chronicle of what has been called the worst peacetime disaster to ever befall America, veteran journalist and author H. Paul Jeffers provides a gripping account of the nightmarish days in April 1906 when earthquake and fire devastated San Francisco. Drawing on a wide range of eyewitness material, Jeffers follows a variety of individuals as they come to terms with an unthinkable event. Celebrities like Enrico Caruso and John Barrymore; the civil and military authorities who tried to bring order out of the chaos; merchants who struggled heroically to save their shops and goods from the ruins and the flames; the suddenly homeless ordinary men and women who composed messages on scraps of paper and sticks of wood (all of which, incredibly, the postal service actually delivered) to tell of their survival: from all these and many other perspectives Jeffers creates a riveting mosaic of catastrophe and its aftermath. With the one-hundredth anniversary of the quake approaching, this skillful and engrossing narrative will be of keen interest to readers from west coast to east. Book jacket.
Author | : Mark Klett |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780520245563 |
A collection of essays accompany this collection of photos of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake and fire, juxtaposed with photos of the city today.
Author | : David Burkhart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"1906 San Francisco comes to life in this unique collection of over 100 original stereo photographs (viewer included) of the "City-by-the-Bay". These haunting 3-D images were created before, during and after the earthquake and fire.
Author | : Charles Morris |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2016-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0486802752 |
Fifty-nine original full-page illustrations enhance these firsthand narratives, which trace the chain of events from the earthquake and fire to the plight of the homeless and the colossal task of rebuilding.
Author | : Tim Cooke |
Publisher | : Gareth Stevens |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2004-12-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780836844948 |
A huge earthquake rocked the West Coast on April 18, 1906. Worst hit was the city of San Francisco, where buildings collapsed and fires raged for days. Thousands of people died, and many more were left homeless. The disaster was just one of a long series of earthquakes triggered by the San Andreas Fault. It taught scientists valuable lessons about preparing for earthquakes. Book jacket.
Author | : Bill Koenig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-08-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781949478532 |
8.5 x 11 Hardcover with Dust Jacket256 pages including 32 color pagesAt 5:12 on the morning of April 18, 1906, a mild foreshock shook San Francisco. Twenty-five seconds later, the Great Earthquake, lasting almost a minute, devastated the City. In San Francisco, this historic event is more often referred to as the Great Fire.Within the first hours, 52 fires spread across the City. The quake destroyed the central fire alarm and telephone systems; thus, no alarms sounded to the 584 members of the Fire Department. The department was without any means of communication; every company was on its own.The engine companies responded to visible fires but discovered the quake had broken most of the water mains. As firefighters searched desperately for working hydrants, small-unchecked building fires merged into large, uncontrolled fires. Before long, the conflagration engulfed 4.7 square miles of the City.Despite these setbacks and challenges, the San Francisco Fire Department fought on, day and night until, late in the evening on April 20th, they extinguished the fire and saved the City.Everything Took Time transports you to those three eventful days in April 1906 to experience the heroic battle of the San Francisco firefighters. Author Bill Koenig gives the events immediacy citing contemporary newspaper articles and takes you behind the scenes with previously unpublished officers' reports. Leave your 21st-century viewpoints behind and read how the department managed a disaster of this magnitude without the tools we have today.
Author | : Grove Karl Gilbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Building materials |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brinkley Howard |
Publisher | : BookCaps Study Guides |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2016-04-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1621073149 |
Over 3,000 dead. Buildings shaken to the ground. A city, surrounded by water, burnt to the ground. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was one of the most destructive natural disasters the world has ever known. Find out what happened and how the city was repaired in this fascinating book.