Contains 457 photos
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Panoramic view west from Market, Turk, & Mason. Wilson Building and Hale Brothers Department store at left (both reconstructed using remaining facades and standing in 2021), City Hall and Hall of Records domes are visible in background at center. Hotel Netherland on Turk St. at far right. Sightseers, horses, pedestrians.
Tenderloin
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Panoramic View East from Market, Turk, & Mason. People rest on steps at base of Admission Day (Native Sons) monument at left with Flood Mansion on Nob Hill in distance. Flood Building center, Emporium, arched entry of Emma Spreckels building at right. Several small refreshment stands, one called "Mt. Tamalpais Lunch Room." Dray wagons and carriages. [Panorama View Near Turk & Market St]
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Panoramic view north from the slope of Rincon Hill. St. Patrick's Church, Aronson Building, Call Building at center, Chronicle Annex, Palace Hotel and Rialto Building at right. [Ruins from Folsom near 3rd. Pillsbury Pictures 234]
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Panoramic View southeast from Nob Hill (Mason near Pine Streets on grounds of Mark Hopkins Art Institute), freestanding chimneys, downtown reconstruction.
Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Panoramic view east from the roof of the Merchants Exchange (431 California, between Montgomery and Sansome). Fire burning April 18th, 1906 [ View from the Merchants Exchange Pillsbury Pictures 100]
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Panoramic view of Refugee Camp at Jefferson Square. View east on Turk. St. Paulus Church visible in background (broken glass, repaired with tape)
Cathedral Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Panoramic View North toward Nob Hill summit from Mason near California, Mark Hopkins Art Institute. Flood Mansion (now Pacific-Union Club) and Fairmont Hotel [Pillsbury Picture Co. 227]
Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Panoramic view northwest near Lobos Square (Now Moscone Playground) with San Francisco Gas Works and Marin Headlands in distance. Clothing distribution from horse-drawn wagon, tents, refugees. Fort Mason in right background. Image exists in a wider version from Pillsbury, erroneously titled Giving Clothing Fort Point 39.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Group of dignitaries posed in front of United Railroads special sightseeing streetcar, the 'San Francisco'. It was the first car to run on Market Street after the 1906 earthquake. Mayor Eugene Schmitz, URR's Patrick Calhoun, Julius Kahn, Abe Ruef, and others.
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast from near 8th and Mission/ Fairmont Hotel at left, rear of St. Francis Hotel at center, Whittell Building at right
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, southwest from Stockton near Ellis to Market, Emporium Department Store, California Academy of Sciences in ruins. [Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 310, EMPORIUM #59], same image as wnp15.1025.
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Man with badge standing in ruins of City Jail, top floor of Hall of Justice
Chinatown
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View North on Valencia near 18th. People walking in street
Mission Dolores
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest from Drumm to 1906 Earthquake and fire damage to north facade of Luning Building
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, unknown location fire burning (hand colorized)