Market at 1st
Preparing site for Crown Zellerbach Building. Hobart Building; Hunter Dulin Building; Equitable Building in background.
DowntownDemolition
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Dynamiting Chimney
Demolition of United Railroads powerhouse, Valencia and Market
Lower Haight
Demolition URR Powerhouse
Dynamiting Powerhouse Chimney. United Railroads Powerhouse, Valencia and Market
Lower Haight
Incinerator Demolition
15th and De Haro, View southwest toward the demolition of the Mission Creek incinerator. The 204 foot incinerator, built 1897, was demolished with 24 charges of dynamite. The case of champagne supposedly entombed in the cornerstone was not found. Brick buildings at 15th and Rhode Island in background. smokestack chimney
Showplace Square
Market, possibly near Pine
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View of Market looking east post quake, probably near Pine. Ferry Building in background, automobile with "Building Committee" sign. wnp71.1337 possibly other image from stereoview card. (8717, Dynamiting dangerous walls on Market St., after the fire. San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A.)
Financial District
Bryant near 16th
Rainer Brewery, street work removing streetcar tracks
Mission
San Jose Avenue
Looking north to Martha Hill (Dorothy Erskine Park); Removing streetcar tracks
Mission Terrace
30th & Laidey
Diamond Heights Before Development, Demolished house, Cleveland Wrecking Company at the now Billy Goat Hill park
Fairmount
30th & Laidley
Diamond Heights Before Development, Demolishing Houses on what's now Billy Goat Hill.
Fairmount
Market & Front
View northwest across Market to 1906 Earthquake damage, buildings being demolished, people boarding electric streetcar
Financial District
Market & Front
View northwest across Market to 1906 Earthquake damage, buildings being demolished, people boarding electric streetcar #1293 Ellis/O'Farrell Devisadero Stanyan Line
Financial District
Fox Theatre Demolition
Market & 9th. View northwest across Market, where demolition is well underway.
Civic Center
Geary & Grant
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake Ruins, view east toward Market, Chronicle Building in distance left, Mutual Savings Bank on right, Palace Hotel in distance center. [6843 Where modern day skyscrapers were tossed like a ship at sea, Newspaper Row, Great Earthquake, San Francisco]
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Geary
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest across Market to Flood building in the distance, Mutual Savings Bank building in the center, Ruins of Flannery Building, Rebuilding de Young/Chronicle building on the right, Lotta's fountain, from Grahame Hardy collection
South of Market
Post near Kearny
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