Maket & Larkin
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [23 Market and Larkin Streets] City Hall ruins
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Nob Hill Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [26 Nob Hill Aydelotte] View uphill from Sutter near Mason St. to Fairmont Hotel
Lower Nob Hill
3rd & Mission
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north on 3rd. Aronson Building at left, Call Building and Mutual Savings Bank with New York Insurance Live Insurance Co. banner, all burned out. Monadnock Building and Chronicle Annex at right. [3rd St. 8]
South of Market
Mission & New Montgomery
View west from center of Mission Street to Rialto Building under construction at left, approaching 10-Line #1367 at center. Keystone Type Foundry at right. California Mill Co. wagon. United Railroads photo. [3232. Mission St West from New Montgomery A.R. 4805] [U03232]
South of Market
10th & Natoma
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Ruins of James Lick Baths [Lick Baths 21 Aydelotte Photo]
South of Market
Mission & 3rd
Elevated view southwest to M.A. Gunst Building (Lansburgh and Joseph, Architects), corner of Mission and 3rd, built 1907. Rochester clothing store at street level, California Lamp Shade Co. and U.S. Army Recruiting Station on upper floors. Present day site of Yerba Buena Gardens. At left, Colorado House rooming house, J.J. Bolger men's clothes, Provident Jewelry Co., Frank's Coffee Parlor. At right, United Auto Supply Co., Saltzman's Furniture.
South of Market
California near Taylor
[Crocker & Colton Mansions] California Street on Nob Hill.
Nob Hill
Second Cliff House
[Cliff House and Seal Rocks.] View up Point Lobos Ave. People and carriages in the road. Chateau Cliff House in distance. Steamship passing. Sutro Heights.
Sutro Heights
7th & Mission
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on Mission. First streetcar after earthquake packed with people. Main Post Office at left. [Kurtz Photo May 5, 1906]
South of Market
Downtown Reconstruction
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view southwest, possibly from Merchant's Exchange. French Savings Bank Building (110 Sutter) Chronicle Annex, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Humboldt Bank Building under construction, City Hall in background. San Francisco Stock and Exchange building in lower foreground (Bush near Montgomery), Pacific Telephone Building (445 Bush) at right, with St. Francis Hotel behind. [DEM]
Financial District
McAllister & Market
Elevated view southeast across Market to Knights Templar 52nd Grand Conclave parade, marching band uniformed men on horseback followed by cars and more marchers. In distance Call, Humboldt Bank, David Hewes and Delger Buildings, Emporium, Hale Bros. and Eastern Outfitting Co. stores. Sterling Building, 1049 Market (1907, Reid Brothers, architects), Forrest Building, 1053-1055 Market (1908, MacDonald & Applegarth, destroyed by fire c. 1981) housing Abrams Co. (later Redlick, Abrams Co.) credit retailer. Ede Building 1059-1061 Market Street (1910, William Knowles, architect) under construction. At far right, Premium Theatre, a nickelodeon from around 1910 to 1914 in the Globe Investment Company Building, 1063 Market (1909, Faff & Bauer, architects), Pacific Check Cash Co.
Tenderloin
Unknown Location
Unknown men handing out books to children. 1926 Dealer license plate on car. (possibly a car ad.)
California & Leidesdorff
American Trust Company. The building was originally the London and San Francisco Bank, built in 1873-1874. It survived the 1906 earthquake and fire and was rehabbed by Willis Polk, who added the short top story. (WMK)
Financial District
Monterey
Chinese Fishing Village, Monterey Three men pose outside of shanty houses.
Outside SF
Point Lobos Ave
People and carriage on the unpaved Cliff Road leading up to the first Cliff House.
Sutro Heights