Downtown Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast toward Market from about Pine and Stockton, Palace Hotel, Chronicle Annex, Mutual Savings Bank, and Call Building at center.
ChinatownDebris
Contains 447 photos
Spreckels Mansion Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest across Van Ness to ruins of Claus Spreckels residence, at Clay St.
Polk Gulch
1868 Earthquake
October 21, 1868 earthquake damaged Coffey-Risdon Bldg.; northwest corner Bush & Market. [Photographed by Oscar Foss, 606 Kearny St., S. F.] Duplicate of wnp37.01595 and wnp37.01488.
Financial District
Telegraph Hill Ruins
View northwest from roof of Appraisers Building.[Up Telegraph Hill in the Wake of Earthquake and Fire--San Francisco Disaster of April 18, 1906] Duplicate of wnp24.314a.
North Beach
Sutter, near Sansome
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north to Earthquake ruins of First National Bank Building, NW corner Bush & Sansome, viewed through remaining facade of ruined London Paris and American Bank building. [San Francisco Ruins from Sutter St., Showing First National Bank Bldg., April 1906.]
Financial District
Nob Hill Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to four men in a horse buggy, ruins all around. Flood mansion, Fairmont Hotel in distance [5336 The San Francisco Earthquake, April 18, 1906. Nob Hill and Fairmount (sic) Hotel from Van Ness Avenue. Copyright 1906 by C. H. Graves.]
Tenderloin
Market & Kearny
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view north, Kearny Street at left.[5337 San Francisco Earthquake, April 18, 1906. From the Chronicle Building toward Chinatown and Telegraph Hill. Copyright 1906 by C. H. Graves.]. Ruins of Hall of Justice center background. St. Francis of Assisi Church left background.
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Beale
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to Ferry Building with scaffolding, streetcars, steam donkeys, rubble and ruins, Temporary railroad tracks on south side of Market, streetcar. [Lower Market Street, after the Earthquake and Fire, San Francisco] Copyright date June 8, 1906.
Financial District
City Hall Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north across Market St. to Earthquake ruins, City Hall and Hall of Records. Boy poses holding dangling cable. [16857. What an Earthquake can do for a modern city in three minutes, San Francisco.] Streetcar, City Hall and Hall of Records. Pioneer (James Lick) Monument at far right
South of Market
North Beach ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Men with large basins digging and salvaging metal pans, pots, and silver. Brick wall behind and building ruins. Ruins of Sentinel Building, Hall of Justice in background.
Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to ruins on Post Street [8197-Homeless among the ruins of former wealth - crude shelters in Union Square, San Francisco, Cal. Copyright 1906 by Underwood & Underwood] Old man in rocking chair, park green and tents, building ruins behind.
Downtown / Union Square
Earthquake ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northeast from Van Ness near Pine to Nob Hill, Clay Street Tank in distance right. [8191-Nob Hill, from which wealth and splendor were driven by the great fire - San Francisco, Cal. Copyright 1906 by Underwood & Underwood U-91102] Granite staircase, fence, with ruins behind.
Polk Gulch
North Beach Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to Telegraph Hill St. Francis of Assisi church amid ruins at center. [8710 A desolate and forbidding scene - Telegraph Hill from Nob Hill, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. Copyright 1906 by H. C. White Co.]
Nob Hill
Capp near 17th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View North on Capp Street near 17th, Buckled Sidewalks [8714 Great cracks in street and settling sidewalks, Capp Street, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. Copyright 1906 by H. C. White Co.] Broken sidewalks, sunken street, automobile, wagon, ruins.
Mission
Post & Kearny
[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.] View northeast. Crushed fire engine. Building rubble, damaged buildings. Right frame of stereoview.
Downtown / Union Square