Contains 419 photos
Elevated view east on Market from Third St. 700 Market Building, Masonic Temple and original Hobart Building on left. Palace Hotel, Grand Hotel and Nucleus Hotel with Beamish's Shirts in corner retail space at right; cable cars; horsecars; old Ferry Building in distance. Davis Bros. Golden Rule Bazaar at lower left. Tower of Masonic Temple background left. Same image as Taber B 2145, see wnp37.02867. [Market St. San Francisco Before the Fire]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View towards Golden Gate with Lobos Square refugee cottages. Gas House cove gas tank at center. View northwest toward Golden Gate from near Chestnut and Polk. Harbor View SF Gas Company tank. The intersection of Van Ness and Chestnut at bottom left. Ferry Bros. Hay & Grain, 2955 Van Ness near Francisco.. Same image as wnp15.603, slightly different cropping.
Russian Hill
View west from Russian Hill over Marina District with large gas tank (gasometer) in foreground. Letterman Hospital, Presidio Main Post, and Fort Winfield Scott in distance.
Marina
Elevated view southeast over Market to Great White Fleet Welcome Parade, Mare Island "Vallejo Welcomes the Fleet" battleship float. Passing Gregory Hardware Co, 615 Market near 2nd.
Financial District
Iron Bridge. The bridge spanned from the old Music Concourse (now the tennis courts) over Middle Drive (now Pelosi Drive) to Favorite Point toward the Conservatory of Flowers. Cropped version of wnp15.601.
Golden Gate Park
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake refugee camp near Conservatory of Flowers. View from steps of Arizona Garden with tents below. Affiliated Colleges in distance on Mt. Sutro.
Golden Gate Park
Onlookers viewing driftwood debris of the wreck of Yosemite on Ocean Beach. Tossed in the surf, the wreck destroyed a section of the Lurline Pier.
Sutro Heights
Fishing boats (feluccas) at original Fisherman's Wharf near Union Street.
Northern Waterfront
Pavilion at left. Debris of steamer YOSEMITE
Sutro Heights
View southwest from center of Market, Crocker Building at right under reconstruction. Metropolis Trust & Savings Bank Building (under construction, completed early 1908) and Palace Hotel under construction at left. Monadnock Building, Call Building, uncompleted Humboldt Bank Building in left background. In right background, Flood Building, Chronicle / de Young Building reconstruction, 660 Market Realty Building, completed late 1907. Behind Chronicle Building scaffolding, Flannery Building and Mutual Savings Bank Building. Electric streetcar #1540 on cable car track.
Financial District
View west over North Beach towards the Golden Gate and Fort Point. Sand dunes of White Point at center right, with Black Point (later Fort Mason) beyond. Large white house atop ridge at left is Humphrey's Castle, built 1852, demolished 1949. Gold Rush brig Euphemia, used by the city at various times and locations as both a prison and an insane asylum, moored along shore at center.
Telegraph Hill
View soutwest across Sacramento to men with carriages and hearse posing in front of Nathaniel Gray Coffin Warerooms, 641 Sacramento St at Spring, then Webb.
Chinatown
Looking southwest from Fort Winfield Scott bluffs towards Lands End and City Cemetery (future Lincoln Park). Baker Beach (aka Baker's Beach) in foreground.
Presidio
View southwest across Van Ness. Parade passing St. Mary's Cathedral
Tenderloin
View northwest across Market to Phelan Building and intersection with O'Farrell. Union Trust Building on right under construction.
South of Market