Contains 204 photos
Elevated view southwest across California. Merchants Exchange on left, Nob Hill in distance right. Safe Deposit Building (California Safe Deposit & Trust Co. Bank) on southeast corner, reduced from 6 stories by demolishing top 4 stories of ruins and refurbishing bottom 2. On southwest corner, 7-story Thomas Clunie Building under construction (demolished 1969).
Financial District
View southeast towards Geary & Stockton. Great White Fleet Decorations. Temporary building in square, Whittell Building, City of Paris, Call Building in background.
Downtown / Union Square
View south on Sansome from center of street. Framework of new Bank of California on right at northwest California St. corner. At northeast corner, Alaska Commercial Building under construction. Two story refurbished Fireman's Fund Building across California at right, two story refurbished Mutual Life Insurance of New York Building at left. Market Street in distance.
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north over earthquake and fire damage. Collapsed brick chimney in foreground right. Ruins of City Hall in middle distance, Nob Hill with Clay Street Tank, Flood Mansion and Fairmont Hotel in background. Some temporary buildings in Mission.
Dolores Heights
View northwest to The Emporium, temporary location very soon after 1906 Earthquake and Fire. 1201 Van Ness, NW corner at Post. Converted from Hecht residence.
Civic Center
View north in Chinatown from center of street to Nanking Fook Woh Co., Canton Bazaar, Sang Chong Lung Co., 616 Grant [2297]
Chinatown
View east toward (probable) Great White Fleet in the Bay from window at the Fairmont Hotel. In distance Ferry Building. Old St. Mary's Church, Thomas Clunie Building under construction (demolished 1969), Kohl Building, Alaska Commercial Building under construction, Merchants Exchange.
Downtown
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view west up California Street. Fairmont Hotel, Old St. Mary's Cathedral Grace Church in distance. Kohl Building, Parrott Block. Bank of California under construction at Sansome corner at right. Fireman's Fund Building across Sansome at left reduced to 2 stories and partially restored. At far left, Mutual Life Insurance Building. In distance left, Merchants Exchange Building. Beyond Bank of California construction at right, London & San Francisco Bank Building with flag on roof, showing earthquake damage to exterior, but occupied by Otis, Mc Allister & Co. coffee importers starting in late June, 1906. Just beyond, 3 story building with light granite facade is Mercantile Trust Co. building (Albert Pissis, Architect, 1903)
Financial District
View north on Third St toward Market. Magee Building at far left (with Owl Drug Co. 710 Market, Tom Dillon Hats 712 Market), Mutual Savings Bank Building (with Paul T. Carroll Knox Hats store), Flannery Building (with signage for C.M. Wooster Co. Country Lands), Johann Schmidt Building at far right (Herman Barth architect, 1908) with large ads for 'San Carlos Park' development on Peninsula. horse drawn wagons. Same image as wnp37.02884 with less cropping. [9446 Mutual Bank]
South of Market
1906 earthquake and fire damage, Studebaker Wagons Carriages Harness. Building on left a post-fire replacement office and showroom built just west of their earlier destroyed building on 10th and Market. At right, ruins of Firehouse No. 19, Hook and Ladder Co. No. 3. Posters and bills for Easton Auction in Burlingame and Regensburg's Cigars at Chas. M. Mattheas, 2579 Washington; Schoenholz & Elsbach dry goods 2011 Fillmore. [10th & Market St. June 2, '06.]
South of Market
View north to bay and Alcatraz Island, showing reconstruction in full swing. Fairmont Hotel, Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (later San Francisco Art Institute), Hotel Colonial in background left. Shreve Building and Head Building (steel frame) at Post & Grant corners at far left. Old St. Mary's Cathedral, large gas storage tank at north end of Powell St., background center, Telegraph Hill background right. Top of Mutual Savings Bank Building at bottom center. Kearny St. on right, with Chronicle Annex, Sherman Clay Building, MacDonough (or McDonough) Building (1908) and ruins of Hall of Justice in distance. 8 story Pacific States Telephone Building (with Pacific Telephone & Telegraph signage, 445 Bush, at center. In distance far right, Merchants Exchange and Kohl Building, Bank of Italy Bui
Downtown
View east to south side of Market, after quake, new construction, Call Building
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view east over construction of Ferry Building Loop. Scaffolding on Ferry Building tower. United Railroads [U01007] [Market & East Sts 10-22-06]
Financial District
Elevated view east toward Ferry Building Loop. Temporary Streetcar tracks and Ferry Tower being repaired from scaffolding (with Pacific Construction Co., 17 Spear St. sign). Ferry Drug Co. Southern Pacific Railroad office at far right. United Railroads [U01009] [Market & East Sts. looking east 10-25-06]
Financial District
[Wright, Rushforth & Cahill Architects] Elevated view south across Market to facade. Originally built as San Francisco's temporary City Hall and served as such from 1912 to 1915. Then became Hotel Whitcomb.
Civic Center