Larkin & Grove
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to 1906 Earthquake and Fire, City Hall ruins
Civic CenterDemolished
Contains 7898 photos
Golden Gate & Leavenworth
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Southeast view to 7th and Market, 1906 Earthquake and Fire damage. Grant Building in background.
Tenderloin
GGIE
Tower of the Sun at night, Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939 Fair
Treasure Island
GGIE
Statue of Pacific at night, Golden Gate International Exposition
Treasure Island
GGIE
Chinese Village pagoda at Golden Gate International Exposition
Treasure Island
GGIE
Tower of the Sun at Golden Gate International Exposition, looking south from Court of the Seven Seas
Treasure Island
Post & Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northwest across Market to ruins of Masonic Temple. Union Trust building at right, Crocker Building at left. [28]
Financial District
Golden Gate Park
View north to Memorial Museum with Gustave Dore vase in front. Pedestrian underpass tunnel. 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. [Museum G.G. Park S.F.]
Golden Gate Park
Van Ness Avenue near Pine
View southwest across Van Ness to Victorian mansions with street trees. House at center is 1501 Van Ness, at the northwest corner, home to Robert N. Graves , later Capt. Robert R. Thompson (49er who made a fortune in shipping and water companies). George Hearst reportedly owned this house before him. All of these homes were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire , due to dynamiting between Sutter and Clay.
Polk Gulch
Fillmore & Sutter
View north on Fillmore from Sutter, the first streetcar running 10 days after the earthquake. The car ran from the Fillmore and Turk barn north to Broadway, then turned around came back down Fillmore with Mayor Eugene Schmitz at the controls. (not sure this is the first trip based on the afternoon light.) [First Car on Fillmore Street after the Earthquake Fire, 1906]
Lower Pacific Heights
Grant & Bush
[519TEH Cor. Dupont & Bush Sts. 1905. T.E. Hecht #519] View north along Grant (Dupont) to Misfit Clothing Parlors and Abbott's. West side of California Hotel at right.
Chinatown
Union Square
Dewey Monument; City of Paris in background
Downtown / Union Square
14th Ave & Lincoln
View southwest from inside the 'Boneyard' storage facility to Market Street Railway (MSRy) #1666; Irving Theater on right; Old St. Anne's Church at left.
Sunset Inner
O'Farrell & Scott
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to Girls High School; earthquake damage, Hamilton Grammar School at right.
Western Addition
GGIE
Golden Gate International Exposition, Fountain of Western Waters in Court of Pacifica
Treasure Island