O'Farrell & Scott
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to Earthquake damage [Girls High School #16 Bushnell Foto Co.]
Western AdditionDamage
Contains 283 photos
2nd & Folsom
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake Ruins, view northwest toward downtown. L to R, Aronson Building, Call Building, Rialto Building, top of Mutual Savings Building, Chronicle Annex, Palace Hotel, Crocker Building, Fairmont Hotel [Looking North from Folsom & 2nd #17 Bushnell Foto Co.]
South of Market
Union near Steiner
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake Damage, View southeast across Union to road subsidence and soldier with rifle posing. Chinn-Beretta Optical sign painted on fence. At left, St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church (1891). [8224 Union Street sunk by the great earth convulsion which destroyed the city] (travel notes on back)
Cow Hollow
Ruins from Ferry Building
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view west from Ferry Building tower scaffolding over wholesale district, Nob Hill Fairmont Hotel, Appraiser's Building in distance, earthquake ruins and early reconstruction.[8280 Fairmount Hotel and Nob Hill, west from Ferry Bldg. Tower over Miles of Ruins U-91730]
Financial District
City Hall Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to Larkin St. side of City Hall in ruins.
Civic Center
Market near 3rd
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins, view southeast to Market & 3rd, Ruins of Examiner Building, Monadnock Building under construction, Palace Hotel at left, sightseers. Most of 7-story ruins of Hearst/Examiner Building have been demolished.
Downtown / Union Square
Pine near Stockton
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins, View from Nob Hill south, showing, left to right, ruins of Mutual Savings Bank Building Shreve Building, Call Building, Whittell Building, Butler Building, Temple Emanu-El and Flood Building
Nob Hill
Hayes & Van Ness
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest to ruins of St. Ignatius Church and College. Present site of Davies Symphony Hall.
Civic Center
Stockton & Sutter
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins, View South on Stockton Street from Sutter Street to gutted City of Paris and Butler Buildings, Whittell Building, Spring Valley Water Company Building
Downtown / Union Square
Post & Powell
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins, View northeast toward ruins of Temple Emanu-El on Sutter Street.
Downtown / Union Square
Kearny & Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Looking northwest, Flannery Building, Shreve Building, at right Pacific States Telegraph Building, Lotta's fountain.
Downtown / Union Square
Grove near Franklin
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast to ruins of St. Ignatius College and church [St. Ignatius]
Civic Center
Hayes near Van Ness
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [108. St. Ignatius Church. S.F. Rhea.] View northwest to ruins of St. Ignatius Church and College. Present site of Davies Symphony Hall.
Civic Center
Fisherman's Wharf
[#12, Megg's Wharf, Western Photographic Co. L.A. Cal.] Believed to be a February 1903 oil fire near Meiggs' Wharf ( which once extended in the bay between Powell and Mason with an extension that turned east and terminated near today's foot of Taylor Street)
Fishermans Wharf
Franklin near Hayes
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northeast from Franklin towards ruins of St. Ignatius Church and College. Present site of Davies Symphony Hall. [St. Ignatius Church & College]
Civic Center