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Contains 641 photos

Eddy Near Fillmore
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Eddy Near Fillmore

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on Eddy Street from Fillmore. Bread line stretching for blocks. St. Paulus Lutheran Church (burned 1995) at Gough in the distance. Soldier patrolling line. [J204 SF After the fire. Bread line on Eddy from Fillmore to Gough] (dg- not sure of this location)

Western Addition
View from Sutro Heights
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View from Sutro Heights

View south from Sutro Heights toward Ocean Beach. Dolce far Niente walkway in the foreground. Chutes at the Beach (later Playland), Golden Gate Park, Sunset sand dunes, wireless radio towers in the distance. Lurline Pier at right.

Sutro Heights
View from Cliff House
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View from Cliff House

View south from the walkway south of the Cliff House toward Ocean Beach. Chutes at the Beach (later Playland), Ocean Beach Pavilion, Lurline Pier, wireless radio towers in the distance. Huge mound of recently dropped rock and sand in foreground.

Sutro Heights
View from Mt. Olympus
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View from Mt. Olympus

View easterly from Mt Olympus toward The Castro /Eureka Valley. 17th Street in the foreground. Potrero Hill and Bernal Heights in the distance. (Richard Behrendt card #638) [Birdseye View of the Mission District]

Buena Vista
Fire from SF Bay
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Fire from SF Bay

1906 Earthquake and Fire, view from boat on bay of downtown on fire. [copyrighted 1906 by C.P. Magagnos, Alameda, Cal.] Columns of smoke. Ferry Building tower at left center. Handwriting at bottom 'The burning of San Francisco on the morning of April 18/ 06'

Geary near Van Ness
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Geary near Van Ness

1906 Earthquake and Fire, view east on Geary St. from Van Ness Ave showing earthquake damage and fire in distance. [2206 View from Van Ness Ave SF taken after earthquake just as fire started]

Tenderloin
View from Twin Peaks
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View from Twin Peaks

View northeast from Twin Peaks down Market Street; Mission District and Eureka Valley well developed; Gray Brothers brick factory and quarry on (Corona Heights) on left. [San Francisco From Twin Peaks P.P.Co. No. 983] Same as wnp37.02948 with different cropping.

Clarendon Heights
Vallejo near Taylor
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Vallejo near Taylor

View SE from Ina Coolbrith Park towards downtown. [506 Panorama of San Francisco as seen from Russian Hill.] Intersection of Vallejo and Mason Streets at lower left. Ferry Building in distance.

Russian Hill
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

Groundbreaking ceremony in Polo Grounds for Panama Pacific International Exposition. President Taft turning ceremonial first shovel of earth. [1911 copyright by G.H. Dresser 226 Powell St. S.F.]

Golden Gate Park
Call Building
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Call Building

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Call Building on fire. [Copyright Whigham. Call Build Apr. 18/06 AM] Elevated view, probably taken from Chronicle Building.

Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
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Union Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, refugees at water station at foot of Dewey Monument. [A water station in Business District, San Francisco] Spires of Temple Emanu-el on Sutter Street at left.

Downtown / Union Square
Golden Gate
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Golden Gate

View west from bay towards Golden Gate at sunset. [Sunset in Golden Gate. No 7701] Dramatic clouds with shafts of sunlight. Lands End at left, Marin Headlands at right.

Mission Dolores
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Mission Dolores

Mission facade viewed from Dolores St. [Mission Dolores S.F. No. 7239]

Mission Dolores
Telegraph Hill
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Telegraph Hill

View North from the end of Green Street, between Montgomery and Sansome. 260 Green at left. Pier 25 (demolished) in the background right.

Telegraph Hill
McKinley Monument
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McKinley Monument

Golden Gate Park Panhandle at Baker Street. View north toward Fell. Construction has not begun on Southern Pacific Hospital (Opened 1908).(Houses in the background still stand on Hayes near the corner of Lyon.) [William McKinley Memorial - Golden Gate Park] [published by Main & McGee]

Panhandle