Palace Hotel
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast across Market from Geary toward ruins of the Palace Hotel. [15. Ruins of the Palace Hotel] Debris chute at left leading to Chronicle Building.
Downtown / Union SquareLandmark
Contains 2516 photos
Mason & Geary
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north on Mason St, First Congregational Church and Native Sons of the Golden West Building. [16. Mason Str North From Geary Lipman Photo] Fairmont Hotel in background. (Original print of wnp26.453)
Lower Nob Hill
Market & Powell
View east on Market St. [4. Market St. San Francisco, Cal. Call Bldg, Flood Bldg, Emporium] Cable cars, pedestrians. Ferry Building in distance.
Downtown / Union Square
Market near 4th
View east on Market St. to cable car, pedestrians, street sweeper. Chronicle Building at left. Ferry Building in distance. On right, Palace Hotel, Hearst Examiner Building, Call Building, Call Building Annex, Bancroft History Building, Sanborn Vail, Cineograph Theatre. [5. Market St. San Francisco, Cal. Call Building]
Downtown / Union Square
Sutro Heights
South side of parapet from perimeter road. Tank house and observation tower, Sutro residence at right.
Sutro Heights
Sutro Heights
Sutro residence viewed through trees of Old Grove at Sutro Heights.
Sutro Heights
View from Nob Hill
View northeast from the roof of the Stanford Mansion at California and Powell toward Ferry Building and Yerba Buena Island (then Goat Island). At left, Hall of Justice on Portsmouth Squear, Montgomery Block, Appraiser's Building, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building(1893). At right , Shaari Zedek synagogue at northeast corner California and Stockton, Old St. Mary's Church. At far right, Safe Deposit Building, Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York Building (Sansome & California). Notably absent is Kohl Building, built 1900-1901. [original - from direct negative][1900 panorama 2/4]
Nob Hill
Union Square
View looking southeast across Union Square towards Butler Building under construction at Geary and Stockton. (with a sign reading 'Newman-Levinson Dry Goods will occupy this building') Dewey Monument at left.
Downtown / Union Square
California & Jones
1906 Earthquake and Fire, looking east on California St from Jones. Ruins at left of William H. Crocker mansion, present site of Grace Cathedral. Flood Mansion and Fairmont Hotel in distance.
Nob Hill
Market near New Montgomery
1906 Earthquake and Fire, ruins of Palace Hotel. Call Building in distance.
Financial District
Valencia near 19th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, elevated view northwest across Valencia to collapsed Valencia Street Hotel between 18th and 19th Streets before fire burned the block. Many people in street. (Different cropping but superior version of wnp27.4951)
Mission
Golden Gate Park
Egyptian-influenced museum building on Music Concourse. Originally constructed as the Fine Arts Building for 1894 Midwinter Fair, it was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. Dore vase at center. Shows building following repairs after 1906 earthquake.
Golden Gate Park
California near Montgomery
1906 Earthquake and Fire, elevated view west from upper story of a building near California St and Montgomery St. Prominent landmarks include ruins (left to right) of Grace Church, Old St. Mary's and Fairmont Hotel
Financial District
Market near Main
View northeast on Market between Main and Spear, a large trench dug with water pipe at the bottom. Ferry Building in the background. Cox Seed Co., 125 Market, at right. [592 Sept 6, '07]
Financial District
California & Taylor
1906 Earthquake and Fire. Ruins of City Hall framed by entrance columns of former Alban Towne Mansion. Portals moved to Golden Gate Park in 1909 as Portals of the Past..
Nob Hill