Reconstruction

Contains 204 photos

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Front near California

View southeast to men posing while clearing the street for 'House Cleaning Day' (sometimes called Cleaning-Up Day'), an organized effort to boost community spirit and show the world that progress was being made in reconstructing San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. (JF) Men with shovels working in front of Ehrman Bros. & Co. 134-138 Front. Most have visible watches on chains, seem not to be regular workingmen. See wnp37.00182, wnp4.1591, wnp71.0093 [EF-113] [G810 EF-113] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1907 Financial District

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Market near 8th

View north over building foundation to ruins of City Hall with demolition of dome underway Pioneer Monument (Lick Monument) with Spanish American War cannon in front. Hall of Records in background right. Bird Store on Marshall Square at right. [G810 EF-118] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1909 Civic Center

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Market & 5th

Elevated view east to Flood building, Emporium. Pacific Building, Humboldt Bank Building, Call Building in distance. [G810 EF-119] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [Market St. S.F. '2 Years After' No 2]

1908 Downtown / Union Square

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Market near 6th

Looking east on Market St. In distance, Mechanics Bank Building under construction at left, Flood, Humboldt Bank and Emporium Buildings. Mounted policeman at center. Hale Bros. under construction at right. Beginning of steel structure for Hewes Building at far right. (G810 EF-135) (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1908 Tenderloin

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3rd & Market

View southeast to future site of Examiner Building on right. Monadnock building, Old Palace Hotel demolished, Metropolis Bank Building under construction, at left. automobiles, horsedrawn carriages. Duplicate of wnp37.01537. [G810 NE-006] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1907 Downtown / Union Square

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View E from Nob Hill

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to ruins after earthquake to the Bay, with some rebuilding underway. Chimney of cable car powerhouse and car barn being reconstructed at center. Ferry Building in background. Hall of Justice, Kohl Building Merchants Exchange building. Taken from north of Washington Street near the summit of Nob Hill. (Detail from wnp71.0638) [G57 SEF-001] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1906 Nob Hill

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View E from Nob Hill

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View of earthquake ruins. Chimney of cable car powerhouse and car barn being rebuilt at center. Sentinel Building, Hall of Justice, Ferry Building, Kohl Building, Merchants Exchange. Washington St. at right. [G57 SEF-029] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1906 Nob Hill

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California near Taylor

View from Nob Hill southeast past earthquake ruins to reconstruction. Towne Mansion portal (later moved to Golden Gate Park), Chronicle Annex, Shreve Building, Temple Emanu-el with reconstructed shorter towers, Mutual Savings Bank building, Call building, Whittell Building, Spring Valley Water Co. Building, Butler Building on Union Square, Humboldt Bank Building. At right, Union Square building and wing of St. Francis Hotel under construction at far right. [G57 SEF-031] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1907 Nob Hill

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View from Nob Hill

View northeast to Telegraph Hill in distance, Ruins from earthquake still in foreground, but rebuilding well underway. St. Francis of Assisi Church, without roof, in center [G57 SEF-036] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1907 Chinatown

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Donahue Monument

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast from Market, with temporary railroad tracks, to Donahue Mechanics Monument at Battery & Market Streets. Temporary wooden buildings and tented refreshment stand. Hughson & Merton; G.W. Emmons Co. Safe Moving and Draying. Horizontal. [G45 SEF-023](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1906 Financial District

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View E from Nob Hill

View east from Stanford Court Hotel, Powell near Pine, Metropolitan Life Building (now Ritz-Carlton) under construction. Negative retouched

1910 Nob Hill

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Nob Hill

Elevated view northwest toward Nob Hill from above Sutter and Stockton. Rebuilt Temple Emanu-El (Now location of 450 Sutter medical building) at left, Hotel Colonial Annex and Stockton Tunnel at center. In distance, early buildings on Grace Cathedral site, Stanford Court Apartments (1912, later Stanford Court Hotel), 1001 California Morsehead Apartments (1915), Hopkins Institute of Art, Flood Mansion (Pacific Union Club) and Fairmont Hotel at center distance. The Angelus, Calvert Hotel Apartments, Yorkshire Apartments, Grant Hotel, Windemere Apartments, Rockingham Hotel Apartments. Hotel Victoria, Built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel, above tunnel entrance at far right.

1920 Downtown / Union Square

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View SW from Ferry Bldg.

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view southwest to Steuart St. with some small buildings completed and under construction. Smith's Cash Store. [From Ferry Bldg. Tower S.W. over great burned district of destroyed San Francisco, Cal. Underwood U-91732 EF-96] Steuart St. between Market & Mission [stereo] [F810 EF-096] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1906 Financial District

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Market near Steuart

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Ferry Building under reconstruction with scaffolding after earthquake. Ruins and rubble on right. Man walks on temporary rail tracks. Sign for Smith's Cash Store. [EF-56] [F810 EF-056] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1906 Financial District

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California near Montgomery

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west from center of California towards Grace Church, Old St. Mary's and the Fairmont Hotel in distance. At far right Parrott Building, or Parrott Block (1852, Architect Stephen Williams) with San Francisco Savings Union in temporary quarters at street level. Some rebuilding evident. [F810 EF-100] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)[Calif-Montgy St Looking West 1906 EF-100]

1907 Financial District