Contains 7898 photos
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake and fire, Lachman Block at southwest corner Fremont & Market burning, Byron Jackson Pumps 411 Market ; Excelsior Glove Company 415 Market St. Stone face of Samuel Lachman, fallen from facade, is visible in rubble on street in front of building. See wnp27.0875.
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake and fire, Montgomery Street looking north to Mills Building, Kohl Building (with flag). Telegraph Hill in distance. Safes at left. Debris in street indicates taken close in time to disaster. Bekins Van and Storage signs.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast to ruins of St. Ignatius College and church [St. Ignatius]
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [108. St. Ignatius Church. S.F. Rhea.] View northwest to ruins of St. Ignatius Church and College. Present site of Davies Symphony Hall.
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Post between Grant & Kearny. View looking east on Post Street to the dynamiting of the ruins of the Masonic Temple center left, Union Trust building beyond, West side of Crocker Building at right. Duplicate of wnp37.00483
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south above Pine between Taylor and Jones Streets. 1st Congregational Church and Flood Building at extreme left.
Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake and fire, View south down Kearny to Chronicle Building, Call Building, Mutual Savings Bank
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south down Larkin to fire approaching damaged City Hall, columns collapsed onto street. Fulton House on Fulton St. corner at right.
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake and fire, view northeast to Donahue Monument and Ferry Building - Expert Safe and Vault Opening. Temporary shacks [No. 28-A Market and Battery Sts.]
Financial District
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Avenue of Progress, looking north. Motorized guided tours
Marina
Golden Gate Park. View north to east (initial) wing of new M.H. de Young Memorial Museum completed 1917, with cannon flanking entrance. Turtle sundial (by M. Earl Cummings) installed October 1907.
Golden Gate Park
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view north toward Nob Hill from Market Street near Taylor. Ruins of Hotel Netherland, 18 Turk between Mason and Taylor, which opened April 4, 1903, at right. Temporary structure for builder Isaac Penny, 412 O'Farrell, at Taylor, very small with white roof, at center.
Tenderloin
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [65 Sing Fat & Co. $700,000 store Chinatown; Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal.]View west on Sacramento below Grant to 1906 Earthquake and fire ruins of Sing Fat & Co. in Chinatown. Fairmont Hotel in background right. Old St. Mary's in background left.
Chinatown
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west down center of Market, City Hall ruins in background right; workmen repairing streetcar tracks and roadway, woman laughing. Far background, Grant Building, Twin Peaks, Admission Day Monument [Scene on Market St. Western Photographic Co. 45]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Pioneer Bldg. Western Photographic Co. 15] View southwest after 1906 Earthquake to ruins of California Pioneer Building at Pioneer Place and 4th Street; Rear of California Academy of Sciences building at right. Loaded wagons
South of Market