Fairmont Hotel
View northwest from empty lot near Powell and California. California Street cable car and Powell Street cable car both approaching intersection. Sign at lower left 'Hotaling's Old Kirk.'
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Market near 8th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast on Market toward 7th Street. Earthquake ruins, and lumber piled up. Grant Building at 7th and Market at right. Flood and Call Buildings visible in the distance.
Civic Center
Market near 4th
1906 earthquake and fire. View northeast over ruins on south side of Market St towards Mutual Savings Bank and Call Building.
South of Market
Market near Stockton
1906 earthquake and fire. Elevated view northwest towards St. Francis Hotel (left) and Butler Building. Two large temporary buildings on Stockton, two streetcars on Market St. in foreground
Downtown / Union Square
Kearny near Sacramento
1906 Earthquake and Fire. View northeast to ruins of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building being demolished. Temporary building and construction. Shack with signage 'Murray Brothers Plumbers, 623 Sacramento' at center.
Chinatown
Leavenworth & Bush
View southwest from rooftop at approximately Leavenworth & Bush to early reconstruction and establishment of retail district on Van Ness Avenue. St. Mary's Cathedral at left center, temporary Emporium at Post and Van Ness at far right. Broken chimney at center is part of ruins of Sutter Street Cable Railway powerhouse at Sutter and Polk. Beyond it and to the right is the Ladies Protection and Relief Society orphanage, on the east side of Franklin, between Geary and Post. In distance Buena Vista Park, Mt. Sutro, San Miguel Hills.
Lower Nob Hill
Union Square
View looking southeast across Union Square towards Butler Building under construction at Geary and Stockton. (with a sign reading 'Newman-Levinson Dry Goods will occupy this building') Dewey Monument at left.
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Steuart
View east on Market toward Sacramento, Ferry Building with scaffolding in the background. United Railroads Streetcar #1137, people walking in the street
Financial District
Market & Stockton
Elevated view east on Market from Ellis and Stockton Streets, showing downtown reconstruction projects after 1906 Earthquake. Phelan Building under construction at left, Mutual Savings Bank and Chronicle annex beyond. Call Building, Call Building Annex, Kamm Building in the background at center, Monadnock Building, Metropolis Trust & Savings Bank Building (under construction, completed early 1908) beyond. Royal Shoes, Old Crow Saloon (T.M. Ferguson Co.), large signs for 'Future Home of Kragens, The Workingman's Store" and Sorensen Co. Jewelers & Opticians. [Market St.]
Downtown / Union Square