Fillmore & Fell
[Firemen ascending ladders in four-alarm blaze here in which four persons died, 17 were hurt, some 16 persons were carried to safety down ladders. 200 firemen fought the blaze.]
Lower HaightOriginal Print
Contains 7862 photos
Lyon & Haight
San Francisco Mime Troupe Gorilla Band descending steps from Buena Vista Park for Freedom Festival Week parade.
Buena Vista
Miraloma near Yerba Buena
Willie Mays' house, 175 Miraloma Drive [This is the new home 175 Miraloma Drive, for which Willie Mays, SF Giants center-fielder, offered $37,500. Willie's offer was turned down, the owner Walter A. Gneadiloff, explaining there was great neighborhood pressure against the deal. Gneadiloff commented:
Sherwood Forest
Downtown Aerial
[Cargo liner heads down SF Bay toward Golden Gate. City's downtown skyline and Bay Bridge in the background.] View looking southeast
O'Farrell & Market
View southeast toward the Call Building (3rd and Market), Silver Palace Theater, Sorenson & Co. crowds of people. advertisement for a sale at Royal Shoes. Post-earthquake Hearst Examiner building at 3rd and Market corner (1911) not yet built.
Downtown / Union Square
Van Ness & Oak
View northwest across Market to Masonic Temple and original location of California Volunteers memorial (now at Dolores and Market). At left Young Men's Institute/International Center, 50 Oak St. (1914), extensively remodeled in 2000's for San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Civic Center
4th & Market
Elevated view southeast across Market to Red Cross nurses in Parade on Market Street, crowds lining street; California Theatre, Humboldt Savings Bank; Call Building in background. Pacific Building at right. [The Great Parade on ....1917]
Downtown / Union Square
Eddy & Market
View east to Emporium reopening after Earthquake and Fire. Pacific Building under construction, Flood Building at left.
Downtown / Union Square
Twin Peaks Boulevard
Looking north, with wooden road barriers
Midtown Terrace
Downtown Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake Ruins with soldiers
Unknown Location
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins, street filled with debris, partial brick walls, streetcar tracks.
Fire from Buena Vista Park
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Looking east to the 'Ham and Eggs Fire' in Hayes Valley
Buena Vista
California & Jones
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Looking northeast to ruins of William H. Crocker mansion at northeast corner of California and Jones, present site of Grace Cathedral
Nob Hill
City Hall Ruins
View north from 8th & Market to ruins of City Hall. Pioneer (James Lick) Monument in Marshall Square in foreground. People strolling, newly built businesses with awnings along south side of square.
South of Market
Russian Hill
View north from Jackson Street during reconstruction. Octagon house on Green street (survived the fire) in the distance.
Nob Hill