South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest to City Hall from south of Market area.
South of MarketDemolished
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Market near Mason
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south across Market at the ruins of the Emma Spreckels Building (1895), 927 Market Street. Center background, California Casket Co. building at 965 Mission near Mary St., Albert Pissis, Architect. Old Mint on far left. Far left foreground, improvised refreshment stand.
Tenderloin
Kearny & Post
View northwest across intersection of Post and Kearny to 101 Kearny. Alfred Lilienfeld and Co. men's furnishings store decorated for the Portola Festival.
Downtown / Union Square
Fillmore & Ellis
View southeast to Geo. Haas and Sons; Clothing store decorated with flags, paintings of ships for Great White Fleet visit. Orpheum Theatre in background. Steel arch over intersection also decorated with flags and boughs.
Western Addition
Oakland
S.N. Wood & Co. Department Store on the Northwest corner of 11th Street and Washington S.N Wood was established by A.L. Peyser, brother of photographer David Peyser
Outside SF
Greenwich near Hyde
View southwest across Greenwich toward Hyde to woman posing in a circa 1920 Franklin Model 9-B Touring auto. The curved roadway at right was later removed.
Russian Hill
2nd Cliff House
The chateau-inspired Cliff House was built in 1896 by Adolph Sutro. It survived the 1906 earthquake only to burn on September 7, 1906. View looking north on Cliff Avenue (today's Point Lobos Ave.). Large doors at lower center led to a carriageway under the structure.
Sutro
Hamilton Square
looking north on Pierce from Geary, Alta Plaza in background
Western Addition
Fulton Chutes
Fulton Street Chutes occupied the block between 10th and 11th Avenues, and Cabrillo and Fulton Streets. [The Chutes and the Circle Swing]
Richmond Inner
Market near Powell
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northeast across Market toward James Flood Building at Powell with evidence of fire scorching, rubble in the foreground, food stall.
South of Market
Sutro Heights
People posing at carriage circle in front of Conservatory.
Sutro
Sutro Baths
View south from Point Lobos over Sutro Baths towards Sutro Heights with observatory and Second Cliff House. Brick smokestack for Powerhouse addition at left. (Original steel stack for 1893 laundry/boiler house in process of being removed.)
Sutro
Lands End Station
people waiting, view toward northeast
Lands End
Point Lobos Ave near Merrie Way
View looking northeast on Cliff Road (today's Point Lobos Ave) from near the Cliff House towards main entrance to Sutro Baths. Sutro Baths Gallery at left. Firth Wheel visible in distance.
Sutro
Point Lobos Ave near Merrie Way
View looking northeast on Cliff Road (today's Point Lobos Ave) from near the Cliff House towards main entrance to Sutro Baths. Sutro Baths Gallery at left. Firth Wheel visible in distance.
Sutro