Palace Hotel
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [34. Palace Hotel; Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal] Earthquake ruins of Palace Hotel with windows boarded up; pedestrians and overloaded streetcar passing. View from Market and Geary
Downtown / Union SquareCopy Negative
Contains 6604 photos
Bush near Montgomery
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [77. Mills Bldg. Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal.] View to gutted Mills Building after 1906 earthquake and fire. Merchants Exchange Building and Kohl Building at left.
Financial District
Post & Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [#78 Crocker Woolworth Bldg. Western Photographic Co., L.A., Cal.] View west at gutted Crocker Building after 1906 earthquake and fire. Coffee stand. Chronicle and Mutual Bank Building at left.
Financial District
Grant near Sacramento
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View through archway at Hall of Justice on Portsmouth Square. [74. Ruins in Chinatown. Western Photographic Co., L.A., Cal.]
Chinatown
View SE from Cliff House
[A. J. McDonald Looking South from Cliff House. No. 5 Market St.] View southeast past Sutro Heights to Cliff Road, Seal Rock Hotel, Ocean Beach Pavilion, and Park & Ocean Railroad depot.
Sutro Heights
Geary & Market
[No. 479 Geary Street San Francisco, Cal.] Elevated view west on Geary from Palace Hotel. Rail work on Market Street. Geary Street cable car #2, Flannery Building (with "Red Rubber Stamps" sign above third story), Large "Dentistry" sign with eagle on roof of building at northwest corner of Kearny & Geary, Lotta's Fountain. In distance on Geary ,large sign for Bradley & Rulofson Photograph Gallery, Calvary Presbyterian Church. Large sign for Eagleson & Co., Shirts & Underwear atop building at right.
South of Market
Alcatraz Island
[320--San Francisco from Alcatraz Island.] Soldiers posed while loading a 15-inch caliber Rodman cannon in Battery Prime at southeast tip of island. Telegraph Hill and North Beach in distance.
Alcatraz Island
[209--San Francisco, from Alcatraz Island.] Soldiers posing next to 15-inch caliber Rodman cannon in Battery Prime at southeast tip of island. Telegraph Hill in distance.
Kearny & Geary
[Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Cal.] Market, Geary and Kearny Streets. View southeast across Market St. to Palace Hotel. Lotta's Fountain (dedicated September, 1875) in foreground, portion of Grand Hotel at far left, Nucleus Block building at right, in early stages of construction. People on street corner and around fountain. Duplicate of wnp37.02342. Variant of wnp24.261a. Same original image as wnp24.261a with slightly different cropping.
Downtown / Union Square
Baldwin Hotel
[The Baldwin Dining Room, San Francisco, Cal.] Man at table in long, empty dining room with tulip-top chandeliers and row of set tables.
Downtown / Union Square
Montgomery & Gold
Elevated view northeast across Montgomery to intersection with Gold St., Pioneer Hall 808 Montgomery (Samuel Charles Bugbee, 1812-1877, architect, built 1862), Society of California Pioneers, first home of Hastings College of the Law (in 1879). Vanderslice & Co. Silversmiths (810 Montgomery). Pacific Street at upper left. Cannon on corner sidewalk points to doorway. (AS) [260. Hall of California Pioneers Helios]
North Beach
Harrison near Spear
[432--Panorama from Rincon Hill] View northeast from near Rincon Point around Spear & Harrison, possibly from Marine Hospital / Sailors Home. Spear St. in foreground. Black Diamond Coal Mining Co, east side Spear between Folsom & Harrison. Carmen Island Salt Works mill, 249 Steuart. Many sailing ships.
Rincon Hill
View from Meiggs' Wharf
View southeast from pile of coal or fill on wharf with wheelbarrow. Signal house at top of Telegraph Hill beyond North Beach. Right side of stereocard image. [626--Telegraph Hill from Meiggs' Wharf]
Fishermans Wharf
Lone Mountain Cemeteries
View northwest from Calvary Cemetery. Roughly O'Farrell east of Masonic. Point Lobos Road / Geary Blvd in middle distance. Broderick Monument in far distance. [472. Lone Mountain Cemetery from the Catholic Cemetery] (472. Protestant Burying Ground, (Broderick's Monument), from the Catholic Cemetery, Lone Mountain)
Anza Vista
View NW from Russian Hill
Taken from approx. Francisco near Polk. Fort Mason in distance. Men standing around in land available for sale. Roughly standing where Polk Street is today.
Russian Hill