Contains 447 photos
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast across 11th to Church of the Advent (Episcopalian) in ruins, covered with advertising. City Hall in background. New lumber in street, sign for Central Lumber Mill, new construction at left.
South of Market
1906 earthquake and Fire, View north toward City Hall from Market near 9th Street.
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast across Market toward Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building, and Hearst Building in ruins after 1906 earthquake. Most of 7-story ruins of Hearst/Examiner Building have been demolished. [Looking east on Market St. showing Examiner Building, Monadnock Building, Palace Hotel, Photo F.L. Stone 6]
Downtown / Union Square
View of January 5, 1883 fire damage to the Conservatory dome, Golden Gate Park. Men pose inside. Chimney, view south. Golden Gate Park.
Golden Gate Park
View north from center of Powell soon after catastrophe, with rubble filling the street. St. Francis Hotel in distance, Flood Building at right. At left, ruins of building that housed the Columbia Theatre. [Looking up Powell St. from Market. 11]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Mission & Sycamore. View east to fire-destroyed Pacific Telephone Co. building. "Drunken Houses" on S. Van Ness Ave. in background left. Steeple of St Charles Borromeo Church and Potrero Hill in Distance. [Mission office - after fire 2139 Mission St]
Mission
View northeast across Bush to row of fire-gutted buildings on north side of street with rubble in foreground filling the street. Main operating building of Pacific States Telephone Co. at 216 Bush destroyed. Handwritten: [Mills Building, First National Bank Bldg.] [216 - Bush St. Office - After Fire][204]
Financial District
View north across Jessie to Old South Office of Pacific Telephone Co, gutted after 1906 earthquake and fire. [212]
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest across New Montgomery to 1906 earthquake ruins, refugees gathered around makeshift table in street. Ruins of 4 story Pacific Telephone Building behind them (site of later Pacific Telephone skyscraper). Ruins of Rialto Building at right. Very faintly in background left are Call Building and Mutual Savings Bank Building.
South of Market
[Wrecked Bldg. on Golden Gate Ave., 34] 1906 Earthquake and Fire, earthquake damage to Siminoff Building on the north side of Golden Gate near Taylor, Same building as in wnp27.3700 and 27.3703, with ads for Hammam Baths at 2354 Pine, Maude Adams engagement at Van Ness Theater (Theater opened March, 1907), Tacoma Beer with cats.
Tenderloin
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast to Montgomery Block, Sentinel Building (Columbus Tower), and ruins of Hall of Justice on Portsmouth Square in background center. After 1906 earthquake, people walking among ruins.
North Beach
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Ruins of the Spreckels Mansion. Same image as wnp4.1580. [EF-107] [G810 EF-107] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Polk Gulch
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast across ruins to Grace Church. [EF-109] [G810 EF-109] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Nob Hill
View southeast across intersection to ruins of Grace Church. Mills Building, bay in background left. Dome of Call Building background right. [G810 EF-122] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Nob Hill
View northeast across Larkin past ruins of City Hall. Hall of Records and rebuilt St. Boniface Church (1908) at right. [G810 EF-123] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Civic Center