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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
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to earthquake ruins, with Call Building and Flood Building in background DUPLICATE OF 1620
Tenderloin
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest to ruins of St. Ignatius Church and College. Present site of Davies Symphony Hall.
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins, Ruins of lower Nob Hill. Union Trust Building (Market and Montgomery) Shreve Building (Post and Grant) at far left center, top of Whittell Building at center background, cable car tracks on Jones.
Lower Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east from earthquake rubble on Market to Chronicle Building Annex, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Call Building, Kamm Building; sightseers along Market
Downtown / Union Square
Albert Gallatin Mansion demolished June 1958, present site of Town School. Streetcar tracks on Jackson
Pacific Heights
View south on Octavia between Pine and California, showing the west side of Octavia Street. The big corner house at 1801 Octavia was built in 1878 for wealthy merchant Martin Heller. The two houses at right, 1807 and 1809 Octavia still stand. (2020)
Pacific Heights
Union 76 Gas station on the southeast corner of Laguna Honda Boulevard and Plaza Street. 149 Magellan at left, 150 Magellan in the background right. 1 Sola (with arches) in the background center. A condominium apartment complex was built on the site in 2004.
Forest Hill
View East on Market Street during reconstruction. Mutual Savings Bank and Call Building, electric streetcars
Downtown / Union Square
[View of S.F.C from the Bay 1918] View from bay of Column of Progress from PPIE, looking south to Pacific Heights
Marina
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake damage, view west from center of street toward north side of Mission between New Montgomery and Annie. P.N. Kuss Paints and Oils, 640 Mission.
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake damage, View southwest across Merchant St. to 541 Merchant St before the fire reached it [Ratto's Oyster Restaurant] earthquake devastation, dead horses. Hall of Justice on Portsmouth Square at upper right.
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake damage, Produce District, View southwest across Merchant St. to 517 Merchant National Fish Co., 519-521 Biagini & Co., Maggio Dondero & Co., earthquake devastation and dead horses. [National Fish Co. across from Henry's saloon]
Financial District
View north to Memorial Museum, across Music Concourse and pedestrian tunnel. Dore Vase at center, flanked by Arthur Putnam's sphinxes, which replaced an earlier pair. 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.
Golden Gate Park
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Late afternoon, view southeast across Market to Market St. Cable Railway Power House with damaged chimney; fire sweeping into the Mission
Lower Haight