Contains 7898 photos
Crowd of Chinese Men and Children awaiting news of Boxer Rebellion, in front of Ning Yung Association, 23 Waverly Place, Yuen Fat & Co., Quong On Chong & Co. (23 Waverly in 1895 directory).[11659. Reading the war news--in Chinatown]
Chinatown
Protestant Orphan Asylum, looking northwest toward Waller
Mint Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view north to 1906 Earthquake, City Hall Ruins, hand colored
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, City Hall ruins, close up of columns; hand colored
Civic Center
Elevated view looking west on Market St. from Ferry Building. Southern Pacific Building at left, Call, Hobart, Flatiron and Fife buildings in distance. Standard Oil Building under construction. City of Paris billboard, Heinz 57 sign. [Market Street 18]
Financial District
View east across 5th Avenue near Lake Street. Woman posed on the sidewalk. The old building of Little Sisters of the Poor in the background between the houses
Presidio Terrace
1 Baker Street, on the northwest corner of Haight Street. Originally the home of Robert Rogers, attorney, built about 1874. Listed in <i>Artistic Homes of California</i> (1888) as the home of Robert Dickson, Manager of London Assurance Corporation. Later the home of attorney James A. Watt. [Watts House]
Haight Ashbury
Two women posing by Lurline Pier [Cliff House April 5, 1920]
Richmond Outer
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northeast from Franklin towards ruins of St. Ignatius Church and College. Present site of Davies Symphony Hall. [St. Ignatius Church & College]
Civic Center
View east across Columbus to International Settlement entrance, Arabian Nights, Carousel, McHales, United States Immigration Station and Appraisers Stores of 1939–44 (now commonly called the Appraisers Building) at right
Chinatown
Van Ness & O'Farrell. Outdoor church services during the Spanish Flu epidemic, people wearing Influenza epidemic masks. (St. Mary's Cathedral burned down in 1962.)
Cathedral Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to 1906 Earthquake and Fire ruins. Fairmont and St. Francis Hotels in Background. Tower of First Congregational Church at center.
Tenderloin
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view south to1906 Earthquake and Fire damage, Original Hale Bros store on Market St., facade still there. Posters on brick walls.
Tenderloin
Looking north from Ocean Beach. Adolph Sutro's Victorian Cliff House survived the 1906 earthquake only to burn in 1907
Richmond Outer
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view southeast to 1906 Earthquake and Fire damage, Old Hale Bros. store facades on Market St. and 6th St.
Tenderloin