Emporium in Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, southwest from Stockton near Ellis to Market, Emporium Department Store, California Academy of Sciences in ruins. [Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 310, EMPORIUM #59], same image as wnp15.1025.
South of MarketBuggy
Contains 113 photos
4th & Howard
Elevated view northwest to exposed tracks at intersection. People's Drug Store pharmacy on NW corner. Gas street lamp at lower right displays names of streets. [Old]=what the crossing looked like before they changed it. - United Railroads [U00716]
South of Market
Old Civic Center
Construction view southeast from Larkin & McAllister [B 892 New City Hall. San Francisco. Taber Photo., San Francisco.] Market Street Railway cable car #7, Hall of Records.
Civic Center
View to City Hall ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast from Van Ness & Golden Gate towards Civic Center. Refugees from earthquake, burned area, City Hall and Hall of Records domes in distance.
Civic Center
Market & Post
View southwest from center of Market, Crocker Building at right under reconstruction. Metropolis Trust & Savings Bank Building (under construction, completed early 1908) and Palace Hotel under construction at left. Monadnock Building, Call Building, uncompleted Humboldt Bank Building in left background. In right background, Flood Building, Chronicle / de Young Building reconstruction, 660 Market Realty Building, completed late 1907. Behind Chronicle Building scaffolding, Flannery Building and Mutual Savings Bank Building. Electric streetcar #1540 on cable car track.
Financial District
Market & Montgomery
View southwest from center of Market, Crocker Building at right under reconstruction. Metropolis Trust & Savings Bank Building (under construction, completed early 1908) and Palace Hotel under construction at left. Monadnock Building, Call Building, uncompleted Humboldt Bank Building in left background. In right background, Flood Building, Chronicle / de Young Building reconstruction, 660 Market Realty Building, completed late 1907. Behind Chronicle Building scaffolding, Flannery Building and Mutual Savings Bank Building. Electric streetcar #1540 on cable car track.
Financial District
Van Ness near Geary
View north across intersection to relocated stores on Van Ness after 1906 earthquake and fire, showing temporary storefronts built in front of existing Victorian houses. Buggies, carriages, shoppers.
Cathedral Hill
Geary near Market
View east on Geary to Market with Palace Hotel and Monadnock Building across Market in the distance. Rear of Mutual Savings Bank Building (with entry to Paul T. Carroll Knox Hats) and Flannery Building at right. At left, Rosenstock and Schmidt Buildings. Geary Cable Car #155.
Downtown / Union Square
Old Mint
View northwest across Mission to Old U.S. Mint at 5th and Mission Streets. [U.S. Mint 5th And Mission Sts.
South of Market
California near Leidesdorff
Elevated view southwest across California St. to second Merchants Exchange Building (1866). Building at right (with signage for Alameda Real Estate Co, Bowen Brothers Grocery) was demolished in 1874 for construction of the Safe Deposit Building. Building at left is Hayward's Building, with signage for Amador Mining Co. Merchants Exchange signage for California Mutual Life, Aetna. Similar, with some different cropping, as right frame of Houseworth stereoview 109: 'Merchants' Exchange Building, South side of California street, btwn. Leidesdorff and Montgomery sts.'
Financial District
Capp near 17th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest across Capp to man standing by broken and subsided sidewalk, ruins all around. Temporary railroad tracks laid by Ocean Shore Railway Company to carry debris. [#109]
Mission
California near Sansome
View west on California with Bank of California building at center. Old St. Mary's Church, Fairmont Hotel up hill. Merchant's Exchange Building at background left, Kohl Building, London & San Francisco Bank Building at right. Gigs, horses, wagons and rebuilding underway. Alaska Commercial Building (1907, Meyers and Ward, Architects)almost complete at right. On left, Mutual Life Insurance of New York and Fireman's Fund Insurance Buildings, each reduced to two stories after earthquake and fire.
Financial District
Market & Post
View southwest from center of Market, Crocker Building at right under reconstruction. Metropolis Trust & Savings Bank Building (under construction, completed early 1908) and Palace Hotel under construction at left. Monadnock Building, Call Building, uncompleted Humboldt Bank Building in left background. In right background, Flood Building, Chronicle / de Young Building reconstruction, 660 Market Realty Building, completed late 1907. Behind Chronicle Building scaffolding, Flannery Building and Mutual Savings Bank Building. Electric streetcar #1540 on cable car track.
Financial District
California near Montgomery
Elevated view southeast across California to second Merchant's Exchange building. People's Insurance Co., B. L. Schmitt Brokerage 437 California, Alameda Real Estate Co. Buggies, wagons, horsecar tracks in street. Building at right was demolished in 1874 for construction of the Safe Deposit Building. Hayward's Building at left, across Leidesdorff intersection.
Financial District
Van Ness near O'Farrell
View north from center of street. Hotel Baltimore on left; early autos and wagons shortly after earthquake; early light poles in center of street. St. Mary's Cathedral is out of frame on left. Autopiano ad, Quaker Oats ad. [Van Ness Ave]
Cathedral Hill