Aberdeen shipwreck
Wreck of steam schooner Aberdeen on Ocean Beach near foot of Kirkham St. Shipwreck occurred January 28, 1916.
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South Van Ness near 17th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Drunken Houses lean against one another on South Van Ness (then Howard), between 17th and 18th. Howard was renamed South Van Ness in 1932.[Between 17 18 on Howard]
Mission
Flood Building
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to Powell and Market corner, Emporium at right. [No. 69 James Flood Bldg]
South of Market
Market Street on fire
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east from center of Market Street near Fremont to Ferry Building. Union Block (Board of Trade Building) on Pine / Davis / Market gore corner, at left.
Financial District
O'Farrell near Stockton
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on O'Farrell, people watching approaching fire on Market. Call Building, Call Building Annex, Kamm Building and Bancroft History Building on Market in distance, Phelan Building on right. Facade on building at left, Shiels apartment building containing Oberon Music Hall 38 O'Farrell, has collapsed into the street. Belvedere Music Hall just beyond.
Downtown / Union Square
Valencia & 14th
View south from center of Valencia toward 14th Street. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 8-line streetcar #1582 with extensive damage to front end after and accident. Signage advertising Coos Bay Shipwreck, a ship that ran aground in heavy fog on October 22, 1927 at Lands End. Corner building at right extant 2022.
Mission Dolores
Clay Theater Fire
Clay & Fillmore, Market Street Railway truck 112 used as auxiliary fire apparatus. Hob Nob Creamery, 2257 Fillmore , to right of theater entrance. The Owl Cleaners and Dyers
Pacific Heights
California near Maple
View east from sidewalk of 1-line #246, which has derailed and crashed into front of apartment building at 3715 California.
Laurel Heights / Jordan Park
Geary near Jones
Shamrock Club Fire, 560 Geary between Jones and Shannon. Street scene with rubble, 4 were killed when torch dancer set off fire in the nightclub at 560 Geary.
Lower Nob Hill
Taraval near 48th Ave
View north of the aftermath of a L-line Streetcar and truck accident, on Taraval Street near 48th Avenue. Flats at 3740-3742 and 3734-3736 Taraval, built 1948, are in background. Workers and what appears to be a Muni Inspector are surveying the damage.
Sunset Outer
11th at Minna
11th Street at Minna, streetcar derailment. Thompson Tire Co. 120 11th St., H Line Potrero
South of Market
Lands End
Ferries & Cliff House Steam Train Wreck. (Also called the Cliff Line train. It was converted to electric streetcar operations in 1905.)
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Golden Gate near Jones
Man standing at entrance of damaged St. Boniface Church, Golden Gate between Jones and Leavenworth
Tenderloin
Memorial Museum
View west toward collapsed east wall of the Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park, after 1906 earthquake. Originally constructed as the Fine Arts Building for 1894 Midwinter Fair, it was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. The building was repaired and later demolished in 1929.
Golden Gate Park
Post & Kearny
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast. Crushed Fire Engine. Building rubble, damaged buildings. Left image of stereoview. [8707 A fire engine caught and crushed by a falling wall, Post St., San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. Copyright 1906 by H. C. White Co.]
Downtown / Union Square