12th near Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northeast from possibly 12th Street from near Market and Mission toward Nob Hill, City Hall ruins and Church of the Advent ruins on 11th Street.
South of MarketChurch
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Grant & California
View north across the intersection of California and Grant. Man posing with Trademark Building and Cathay House. Old Saint Mary's visible at right.
Chinatown
Grant & California
View north across the intersection of California and Grant. Man posing with Trademark Building and Cathay House and Sing Chong Co. Old Saint Mary's cathedral visible at right.
Chinatown
Grant & California
View north on Grant across California. California Street cable car intersection decorated for Cable Car Carnival June 2nd (1950) at the Fairmont Hotel.
Chinatown
View from Nob Hill
View northeast toward Telegraph Hill from the roof of Washington Grammar School on the southwest corner of Washington and Mason. St Francis of Assisi Church at center.
Nob Hill
Mason & Geary
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Fairmont Hotel in background, First Congregational Church, and Native Sons of the Golden West Building.
Downtown / Union Square
St. Brendan's Church
Rockaway Avenue and Laguna Honda, just off Portola. [Police, newsmen and mourners scurry for cover as a bomb explodes at St. Brendan's Catholic Church minutes before a funeral service for police officer Harold L. Hamilton who had been killed in a Richmond District bank robbery earlier in the week.] No one was injured in the bombing. (SF Examiner News Photo)
Laguna Honda
Fillmore near Turk
Elevated view east across Fillmore between Turk and Golden Gate to United Railroads buildings on the east side of Fillmore Street. Turk Street electrical substation (Turk Fillmore power house) visible at far left (still stands in 2023). Signs on buildings for U.R.R. Maintenance of Way Dept. and URR Electrical Dept. St. Paulus Lutheran Church in distance left at Gough and Eddy (burned 1995). Buildings are, in 2023, site of Fillmore & Turk Mini Park. These buildings had been built on the site of the original Market Street Railway Co's horsecar stables. [Stables of Old Horse Car Barn at United Railroads Turk and Fillmore Car House and Powerhouse Complex][Turk & Fillmore Sts. Stablses] United Railroads [U00491]
Western Addition
Market near Fulton
View northerly from the south sidewalk in front of 1165 Market between 7th and 8th toward Fulton. Municipal (MUNI) K-line streetcar #183. Busy sidewalk with pedestrians and neon signs. Strand Theatre showing 'Drive a Crooked Road' and 'Wings of the Hawk.'
South of Market
15th near Julian
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view west on 15th Street between Julian and Mission. Ruins of St. Francis Hospital at right. Swedish Lutheran Ebenezer Church at 15th & Dolores in background left, Corona Heights and Buena Vista Park in the distance. Houses along the west side of Dolores mark the edge of the burned zone.
Mission
15th near Julian
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view west on 15th Street between Julian and Mission. Ruins of St. Francis Hospital at right. Swedish Lutheran Ebenezer Church at 15th & Dolores in background left, Corona Heights and Buena Vista Park in the distance. Houses along the west side of Dolores mark the edge of the burned zone.
Mission
Broderick & Grove
Gethsemane Baptist Church, 601 Broderick Street, northwest corner of Broderick and Grove built 1875. Still standing (2021), building has been restored, exterior stairway at left removed.
Panhandle
Washington Square
View northeast from Powell and Union Streets across Marini Plaza and Columbus Avenue, towards Washington Square, SS Peter & Paul Church in the background. [Saints Peter & Paul Church 2485]
North Beach
Van Ness & Austin
View east across Van Ness Avenue between Pine and Austin for the Knights Templar Parade. Crowd assembled. The Van Ness Avenue Methodist Episcopal Chapel, 1412 Van Ness, at right. The Van Ness Ave. M. E. Chapel was reported by the Call in February 1892 to be "recently built" as a "temporary" structure until a more substantial edifice could be built. It was listed as the Van Ness Ave. M. E. Church in the 1892-1894 city directories.(PF)
Lower Nob Hill
Van Ness & Austin
View east across Van Ness Avenue between Pine and Austin for the Knights Templar Parade. Crowd assembled. The Van Ness Avenue Methodist Episcopal Chapel, 1412 Van Ness, at right. The Van Ness Ave. M. E. Chapel was reported by the Call in February 1892 to be "recently built" as a "temporary" structure until a more substantial edifice could be built. It was listed as the Van Ness Ave. M. E. Church in the 1892-1894 city directories. (PF)
Lower Nob Hill