Debris

Contains 447 photos

Clay near Battery
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Clay near Battery

October 21, 1868 Earthquake damage. Rail Road House at 316-320 Commercial Street (with entry on Clay), and S. P. Taylor & Co. (paper) between Front and Battery. Two men look out of window at right. Facade braced with long wooden beams.

Financial District
7th & Natoma
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7th & Natoma

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View South from 7th and Natoma. Couple posing in rubble, Potrero Hill and Bernal Heights in background. Ruined gas streetlamp displays names of streets. (another copy at wnp27.2991)

South of Market
Ruins South of Market
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Ruins South of Market

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Panoramic view northeast, South of Market, Mission between 4th and 5th. Flood Building, Lincoln School at center, Call Building. [North from Mission near 4th, Pillsbury Pictures 205]

South of Market
Folsom near 3rd
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Folsom near 3rd

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Panoramic view north from the slope of Rincon Hill. St. Patrick's Church, Aronson Building, Call Building at center, Chronicle Annex, Palace Hotel and Rialto Building at right. [Ruins from Folsom near 3rd. Pillsbury Pictures 234]

South of Market
South of Market Ruins
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South of Market Ruins

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast from near 8th and Mission/ Fairmont Hotel at left, rear of St. Francis Hotel at center, Whittell Building at right

South of Market
Emporium in Ruins
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Emporium in Ruins

1906 Earthquake and Fire, southwest from Stockton near Ellis to Market, Emporium Department Store, California Academy of Sciences in ruins. [Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 310, EMPORIUM #59], same image as wnp15.1025.

South of Market
California Drumm & Market
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California Drumm & Market

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest from Drumm to 1906 Earthquake and fire damage to north facade of Luning Building

Financial District
Market near McAllister
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Market near McAllister

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east from center of Market near McAllister, to damaged buildings and fire burning. Flood Building in distance on left. Hale Bros. store near 6th Street in distance left of center. [Down Market St. from 5th (sic)] (hand colorized)

Tenderloin
Stanford University
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Stanford University

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Stanford Gymnasium

Outside SF
Van Ness & Hayes
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Van Ness & Hayes

1906 Earthquake and Fire,,View northwest from Van Ness to Hayes Street side of St. Ignatius Church and College. Present site of Davies Symphony Hall. [Copyright 1906. Pillsbury Picture Co. St. Ignatius Church]

Civic Center
3rd & Market
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3rd & Market

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south across Market to Hearst Building in ruins, Call Building at right. [Ruins of the Examiner, Copyright 1906 Pillsbur [sic] Picture Co. No. 72]

Downtown / Union Square
Powell near Sutter
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Powell near Sutter

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to Temple Emanu-el, on Sutter between Powell & Stockton [Temple E-Manuel Ruins, Copyright 1906, Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 16]

Downtown / Union Square
3rd from Stevenson
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3rd from Stevenson

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View South on 3rd from near Stevenson, Aronson building burning in distance at right. Winchester Hotel at right [View Down 3rd St. from Market St.]

South of Market
Sutter & Polk
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Sutter & Polk

1906 Earthquake and Fire, smokestack and ruins of Sutter Street Cable Railway powerhouse [Power House, Sutter & Polk Sts. #?]

Lower Nob Hill
Union Trust Building
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Union Trust Building

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View East on Post toward Montgomery, Ruins of Masonic Temple, Union Trust building on northeast corner (demolished circa 1965)[?R. Bldg., New Montgomery & Market St. #?]

Downtown / Union Square