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The
Mission District
of
San Francisco, California
, burning in the aftermath of the
1906 San Francisco earthquake
. As damaging as the
earthquake
and its
aftershocks
were, the fires that burned out of control afterward were much more destructive.
Photo credit: H. D. Chadwick
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