Contains 239 photos
Elevated view northwest to 430-444 Bush Street, the new Pacific Telephone Company main office. City Flower Market, 424 Bush. Firehouse, Station 2 (460 Bush, Newton Tharp architect, built 1909) to left of telephone company building.
Downtown / Union Square
Firefighters on ladder at Denver Hotel, view north to Central Tower and Mutual Savings Bank Buildings on Market. Coney Island Hot Dogs, Standard Loan Office, Elvee Grocery.
South of Market
View northeast across Folson from near 3rd to fire with ladder truck responding, Chevron gas station and 3rd & Folsom Garage.
South of Market
[TEH381, FD-12, Monumental Engine House 1856, on the Plaza] West side of Portsmouth Square.(Published in 1856, G.R. Fardon's San Francisco Album). (G810 FD-012) (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Chinatown
View from street of south side of Emerson Elementary School fire, with flame and smoke bursting from top story windows. Firemen on street with hoses. School renamed in 1978 to memorialize its long time principal, Dr. William L. Cobb. [3/3 Scott - Pine] (folder: Fire, School)
Lower Pacific Heights
Flame billowing from 4871 Mission between France and Onondaga, silhouetting firemen. [2/2 France - Mission] (folder: Fire, Silhouette)
Cayuga
View west to group of firemen and 8 fire trucks and apparatus posing on Larkin St. with City Hall in background. Welcome Home Victory Monument in City Hall Plaza. [4-3-23, 8675, H.C.]
Civic Center
View west to group of firemen and 8 fire trucks and apparatus posing on Larkin St. with City Hall in background. Welcome Home Victory Monument in City Hall Plaza, Civic Auditorium (later Bill Graham Civic Aud.) at left. [8676, 4-3-23, H.C.]
Civic Center
Buildings facing square on west side. Dr. Whitney Medical & Surgical Dispensary, Monumental Firehouse, Frank's Building, West End Hotel. (Same image as wnp24.0025a) [TEH179, PS-9, Portsmouth Square 1865] [G810 PS-009] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Chinatown
View across Fulton to south side ( now part of United Nations Plaza) Orpheum Theatre at right. [2/2 50 Fulton] (folder: Fire, Smoke Ejector, at the scene)
Civic Center
View southeast to 4800 block of Mission, 4865 Mission, Date Room bar, Gene Baker Motors [2/2 France Mission] (folder: Fire, Smokey Premises)
Cayuga
(Published in 1856, G.R. Fardon's San Francisco Album) [St. Francis H & L (Hook and Ladder) Co. Or. June 15, 1850. W.S. Dupont bet. Clay & Sac. Taken 1856] Firehouse with statue of woman atop. [G57 SFD-003] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Chinatown
San Francisco Fire Dept. fireboat shooting streams of water in air. Could be either 'David Scannell' or 'Dennis T. Sullivan.' [G57 SSH-018] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
SF Bay
View northwest across Bush to California Theatre (which opened in January, 1869) and Columbian Engine Company No. 11 firehouse at right. Theatre signs advertising John E. Owens in 'She Stoops to Conquer.'and 'The Rivals'. California Theatre building replaced in 1889 by a much larger building combining the California Hotel and New California Theatre. Wider view of Houseworth stereoview. See wnp37.00597-L [G810 T-029](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
View south from center of Bryant to fire in apartment house at 2230 Bryant St. Five ladders being used. Firefighters on roof. Characterized as an arson fire by investigators, 75 residents were evacuated unharmed, 2 firefighters were injured. 115 firefighters and 33 pieces of equipment were deployed. Building still stands in 2021. (folder: Fire, Street Scene, Firefighters Working, Day)[3/3 20th - Bryant]
Mission