Fairmont Hotel Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast from Pine near Mason Street of the fire-gutted Fairmont and remains of Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. [Fairmount (Sic) Hotel]
Nob HillHotel
Contains 945 photos
Jones near Clay
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to earthquake and fire damage. Fairmont Hotel and Flood Mansion (with tent encampment in yard) at right. In distance, Kohl and Merchants Exchange Buildings, Ferry Building. [East From Nob Hill Chas Bailey L.A. #92]
Nob Hill
Van Ness near Post
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View Northeast toward Nob Hill, Flood Mansion and Fairmont Hotel are visible in distance at center, Ruins of Sutter Street Railway Powerhouse at left.
Cathedral Hill
Fairmont Hotel
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [121 Fairmont Hotel from California Street, R.J. Waters &Co photographer], Post 1906 EQ&Fire, looking northwest across California
Nob Hill
Kearny, Grant & Market
Elevated view east to Geary Street cable car turnaround with cable car #359 and trailer, Lotta's Fountain, Chronicle/de Young Building at left, Grand Hotel at center, Palace Hotel at right. Monadnock Building under construction at far right.
Downtown / Union Square
Fairmont Hotel
Fairmont Hotel, northeast corner of California and Mason Streets. Two California Street Cable Railway cars at right.
Nob Hill
Palace Hotel
Third & Market. Lotta's Fountain in foreground. Detroit Photographic Co./San Francisco, Co.
South of Market
California Street
Elevated view west from Montgomery; Nob Hill. Fairmont Hotel, Pacific States Hotel (556 California), Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, center left. Stanford Court Apartments (1912, later Stanford Court Hotel) under construction.
Downtown
Market near 3rd
Market Street, south side east from third street, Grand and Palace Hotels, M&D Windmiller, Manufacturers of fancy furs- Britain & Rey; Edward H. Kemp Old San Francisco
Downtown
Palace Hotel
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Market St. Entrance Old Palace Hotel] 1906 Earthquake damage
South of Market
Market & New Montgomery
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest across Market to Grand and Palace Hotel Ruins [McIntosh stereopticon co. Chicago / Palace Hotel, SF, Ca.] Monadnock and Call Buildings at right
Financial District
Bush & Kearny
Elevated view northwest across intersection of Bush & Kearny to the California Hotel and Theater (built 1889). A poster for Russell's Comedians, a production which played there from January 19th to February 8, 1891, leans in the entryway. On the morning of the April, 1906 earthquake, the eastern chimney of the hotel fell through the roof of the adjacent fire station (which by then had a third story added) resulting in the death of Chief Dennis Sullivan. A poster on the wall of St. George Alley at lower right is for 'Musette' with Lotta Crabtree at the Baldwin Theater, which opened for a 2 week run on January 26, 1891. At right, a sign for F. H. Lawton Shirt Manufacturer, 305 Kearny. Stanford and Mark Hopkins mansions in distance left. Utility poles with 6 crossbars.
Downtown / Union Square
Native Sons Monument
View north to Mason, Turk & Market Sts, Admission Day (Native Sons) Monument, Tivoli Opera House in background at southwest corner of Eddy and Mason, showing musical comedy "The Burgomaster" starting March 10, 1905. Golden State Hotel. Hotel Inverness, Pacific Shirt Co. Monument moved to Golden Gate Park in 1948, moved to Market at Post and Montgomery Streets in 1977.
Downtown
Civic Center
Civic Center Plaza landscaping. Main Library at left. Empire Hotel (100 McAllister) in background.
Civic Center
Hotel Dalt
Entrance to Hotel Dalt - 34 Turk Street - Accident Report - United Railroads [U06326] <br>'Guests in the lobby of the Hotel Dalt, 34 Turk street, were stampeded last night when an automobile crashed through the window. The machine had collided with another automobile that had struck a Turk street car.' (Motor Car Plunges Into Hotel Lobby, SF Examiner, 11/22/1918, pg6)
Downtown