Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/San Francisco earthquake fire

San Francisco Earthquake 1906; fire

Original - San Francisco Mission District burning in the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. Image taken on a rooftop near the fire by H. D. Chadwick.

Reason

User:Durova nominated it on Picture Peer Review, praising the danger of the circumstances of the picture taking. It very well illustrates the fire section of the article, and it is of high resolution.

Articles this image appears in

San Francisco earthquake of 1906

Creator

photograph taken by H.D. Chadwick, U.S. Government War Department

• Support as nominator Enuja (talk) 01:21, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support. My thunder has been stolen! Hoping I get conomination credit for digging this out of the Commons slush pile and editing it. Durova^Charge! 01:37, 5 January 2008 (UTC)