Jackson near Battery
Looking east on Jackson toward Battery. De La Montanya Stoves
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Page near Central
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west on Page toward Central Avenue. Women cooking in a street kitchen in the middle of Page. Soldiers, streetcar tracks. Side view of 160 Central Avenue, built 1894, at left.
Haight Ashbury
Eddy near Franklin
Looking east. Homes on elegant street. Marshall & Stearns Co. at 904 Eddy.
Western Addition
Sansome near Pine
View north on Sansome to scene of heavy road construction. Building at right had housed Anglo and London Paris National Bank until completion of firm's new building at Sansome and Sutter in 1910. In background, tall building at California Street corner is Alaska Commercial Building (1907, Meyers and Ward, Architects).
Financial District
California & Montgomery
View east down California. On left, Kohl Building, Mercantile Trust Co. Building (1903,Albert Pissis, Architect), Alaska Commercial Building (1907, Meyers and Ward, Architects)under construction in distance. At right on corner, remains of Safe Deposit building (six stories prior to earthquake and fire, refurbished and reopened. Merchants Exchange beyond.
Downtown
California & Leidesdorff
View north on Leidesdorff to Bank of California on northwest corner; the building was originally the London and San Francisco Bank, built in 1873-1874. It survived the 1906 earthquake and fire and was rehabbed by Willis Polk, who added a short top story, shown here under construction. Side of Merchant's Exchange Building in foreground left.
Financial District
Van Ness & Sutter
View northeast across Sutter to shoppers crossing Sutter Street. Peanut Wagon at left. W.J. Sloane furniture (1300-1320 Van Ness), Henry Lyons & Sons (clothiers, 1332-1338 Van Ness), Charles Berwin (furriers, 1330-1332 Van Ness) in background. Following the 1906 earthquake and fire, this part of Van Ness Avenue became the temporary site of many relocated downtown stores.
Downtown
Fairmont Hotel
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast to burned out Fairmont Hotel viewed through burned trees, from Taylor St.
Nob Hill
O'Farrell near Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Looking east on O'Farrell toward Call Building.
Downtown / Union Square
View from Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to downtown. Kohl Bldg at left, Ferry Building in distance with repair scaffolding. Merchants Exchange at center with structural repairs underway.
Nob Hill
California & Stockton
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Ruins of Grace Church following 1906 fire and earthquake
Downtown
Panorama to Twin Peaks
1906 Earthquake and Fire, from Crockers Nob Hill
Nob Hill
California & Taylor
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to the rear of the portico of the ruined A. N. Towne mansion on California Street. Portico was moved to Lloyd Lake in Golden Gate Park in 1909 and became known as Portals of the Past. Fairmont Hotel under reconstruction in the background.
Nob Hill
California near Leidesdorff
Elevated view southwest across California. Merchants Exchange on left, Nob Hill in distance right. Safe Deposit Building (California Safe Deposit & Trust Co. Bank) on southeast corner, reduced from 6 stories by demolishing top 4 stories of ruins and refurbishing bottom 2. On southwest corner, 7-story Thomas Clunie Building under construction (demolished 1969).
Financial District
Market at Kearny
View southeast across crowded intersection to policeman, 7-Line streetcar. Monadnock Building and Palace Hotel in background. Flags, electric lights over street.
Downtown