Jefferson Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast to great fire of 1906. Refugees on lawn with their possessions. Jefferson Hotel and City Hall dome visible in distance.
Cathedral HillEarthquake
Contains 42 photos
Lake Merced Aerial
Aerial over Lake Merced, looking north showing collapsed sections of John Muir Blvd, the result of an earthquake on March 22, 1957.
Lakeshore
Post & Grant
1906 Earthquake and Fire. View north from Shreve Building. Telegraph Hill in distance. Ruins of Grace Church in left, Old St. Mary's Church in center distance. Tracks being put in on Sutter. (AS) [Looking up Grant Ave from Shreve & Co. Bldg.]
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Powell
[no 3] View east on Market during 1906 fire and earthquake. Call Building burns, spectators kept at a distance. Emporium at right.
Downtown / Union Square
Unknown Location
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [No. 12.] Refugee camp following 1906 earthquake and fire. Street kitchens and tents in a park. Policeman and dog at center.
7th near Mission
View south on 7th Street toward Mission. Fire approaching the Grand Southern Hotel on southeast corner of 7th and Mission. Crowds view the approaching fire. Smoke obscures distance. [No 79-R] ( see also lantern slide wnp13.341)
South of Market
Mint & Mission
[No. 89R] Spectators on Mint St. watch as fire nears a cable car on Mission Street. Old Mint at left. 1906 fire and earthquake.
South of Market
City Hall Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest across then City Hall Avenue to ruins of west entrance of old City Hall following 1906 earthquake and fire. Published as stereoview with caption 'West Entrance City Hall'. [Copyright 1906 Clinton Johnson (#172?)]
Civic Center
Golden Gate Park
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Refugee camp following 1906 earthquake and fire. Relief line of refugees at tents, women using baby carriages to carry supplies. University of California Affiliated Colleges (now UCSF) at far left in distance. [Copyright 1906 Clinton Johnson #203]
Golden Gate Park
Embarcadero refugees
1906 Earthquake and Fire, People with trunks, mattresses, and wagons in street. Smoke from the fire in background. 1906 earthquake and fire refugees in street with personal possessions. [Copyright 1906 Clinton Johnson #3][Refugees camping in front of Ferry Building]
Financial District
Howard near 3rd
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Three 1906 earthquake and fire refugees sitting in ruins with gutted buildings in background. Howard Street Methodist Episcopal at left. [Copyright 1906 Clinton Johnson #39][ Originally from stereocard with this erroneous caption "Old First Baptist Church opposite the Mint"]
South of Market
Hall of Justice
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to ruins of old Hall of Justice from Portsmouth Square following 1906 earthquake and fire. Refugee camp in foreground. Published as stereoview with caption 'Hall of Justice and Police Tents'.[Copyright 1906 Clinton Johnson #156]
Chinatown
Union near Steiner
View west on Union between Steiner and Pierce Streets to twisted cable tracks displaced by earthquake. Large mansion with tower at southwest corner of Pierce and Union was built circa 1884 by wealthy attorney and landowner David Bixler. Flats at left with angled bays and rounded balconies extant 2019 at 2355-2365 Union St. [#52 Union St distorted by Earth-quake - Hughes, Fort Mason]
Cow Hollow
Hayes Valley
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast towards ruins of Civic Center and Old City Hall. Dome of Hall of Records on left. From around Fell and Franklin [25]
Civic Center
Mission Dolores
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest across Dolores St. to cemetery, Mission Dolores and gothic revival church. Earthquake damage visible to cemetery and brick church.
Mission Dolores