Contains 12978 photos
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west on California to people on street, earthquake ruins, Nob Hill, Grace Church, Fairmont Hotel, Kohl Building. Ruins of Wells Fargo Bank (Friedlander's Building) on right. At left across Sansome, Fireman's Fund building. [8722 California St., to Fairmount Hotel, Great Merchant's Exchange on left, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. Copyright 1906 by H. C. White Co.]
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest across debris on Post St. toward Dewey Monument and St. Francis Hotel with north wing under construction. [8725 St. Francis hotel, the interior of which was burned out, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. Copyright 1906 by H. C. White Co.]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [8715 Curious wreck of Steiner St. Catholic church and settled houses. San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. Copyright 1906 by H. C. White Co.] St. Dominic's Catholic Church. Horses, carriages, working men. Pacific States Telegraph Co. building. Taken after April 18, 1906 earthquake and before May 14, 1906, when south tower was pulled down.
Lower Pacific Heights
[Grand Stairway and Italian Terrace in Woodward's Gardens] Band stand. Duplicate of wnp37.01040
Mission
Men, women, and child in row of tents. Golden Gate Park?
[30. Chinese Camp Kitchen. Copyright by Tom M. Phillips, 1906.] Men preparing food on improvised table outdoors. Dishes piled up in background. Landscape of trees growing on flat plain indicate possible Marin or East Bay location.
Grand stairway, Italian Terrace, restaurant, aviary, reptile house.
Mission
Interior view of large tank looking north. Slides, swimmers. Diving tank in left background. Volleyball court enclosed by chickenwire at right.
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
View north to Cerruti Mercantile Co. wholesale liquor dealers at 534 Washington Street (today 582). Men posing with barrels. Italian posters, and signs for Swayne, Hoyt and Co. Custom House Brokers, F. E. Mayhew & Co. View north on Hotaling at right.
Financial District
View north on Bartlett Alley, now called Beckett Street, from Jackson. Chinese men on one side, and Caucasian men on other. Signage on second story of building at right indicates it was a restaurant, Wui Fong Low restaurant, listed as "Wauy Fong, Restaurant" in the 1878 Wells directory. Watkins stereoview 3752 is the same image with different cropping. [Bartlett Alley, Chinese Quarter, San Francisco]
Chinatown
View east from center of Market to basalt brick street, Phelan Building, Chronicle (de Young) Building, Palace Hotel, Hearst Examiner Building, Call Building, Bancroft History Building, Cineograph Theater, Midway Plaisance Theater, bicyclist. [Taken with the $5.00 Vive. Souvenir of Vive Day. Emporium and Golden Rule Bazaar, San Francisco, Cal.]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Moving Household Goods out of the Mission] Looking south at wagons on street, plank sidewalks. Building on corner (today 3437 Mission) stands today. In distance at Cortland Avenue is Charles Toloski Saddlery.
Bernal Heights
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View North on Webster toward Hermann, Earthquake Refugees, Bread line (and soup) after 1906 earthquake and fire. Buildings still stand (though altered) on the northeast corner
Duboce Triangle
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Tilting building near Butchertown. Four women pose under precarious house. (Bear Photo 20)
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [California Street East from Kearny] View east from center of California to men walking among earthquake ruins with much debris still in street. On left, ruins of San Francisco Savings Union, German Savings and Loan Society, Parrott Building, or Parrott Block (1852, Architect Stephen Williams). Kohl Building in background left. On right, Safe Deposit Building (before demolition of upper stories), Merchants Exchange with Mutual Insurance Co. of New York Building in distance.
Chinatown