View NE from Nob Hill
View over rebuilt North Beach towards Telegraph Hill. Clay and Wetmore Street in foreground.
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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
View from Nob Hill
Looking east to Ferry Building, piers, ships in bay, Yerba Buena Island. Intersection of Washington and Taylor in foreground. Much reconstruction under way. Chimney of cable car powerhouse and car barn at center, with ruins of Hall of Justice just beyond to right. Sentinel Building (Columbus Tower)at left.
Nob Hill
Market near 5th
View northeast across Market at about 5th. Flood building at center. Streetcar horses and wagons, Phelan Building under construction in the distance. American flags flying all along Market.
South of Market
Market & Geary
View northwest across Market to Streetcar #1693, Horse car, wagons, Lotta's Fountain. Advertising on Schmidt Building (Herman Barth architect, 1908) for 'San Carlos Park' development on Peninsula. Flannery Building with signage for C.M. Wooster Co. Country Lands, Golden State Irrigated Farms Co. Mutual Savings Bank Building, background left. Flags flying from vehicles and on some buildings. In center background, Rosenstock Building under construction (Albert Pissis architect, 1908). With exception of Flannery Building, major buildings in view still stand in 2022.
Downtown / Union Square
Mason & Clay
View northwest from Nob Hill toward the summit of Russian Hill. Smokestack of cable car barn at Washington & Mason at right center.
Nob Hill
Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northeast from near California and Taylor. Post-earthquake and fire view of ruined A.N. Towne Mansion, unrestored Flood Mansion, refurbished Fairmont Hotel. Columned entryway at left moved to Lloyd Lake in Golden Gate Park in 1909 and named Portals of the Past. In distance at right is the San Francisco Institute of Art (Formerly the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art) building, opened in 1907, and later replaced by the Mark Hopkins Hotel.
Nob Hill
View from Nob Hill
Post 1906 Earthquake and Fire, view southeast from Crocker Mansion grounds on California Street between Taylor and Jones Streets. Reconstruction in progress. Buildings around Union Square at left, including Whittell Building, Butler Building, St. Francis Hotel with annex construction in progress, Flood Building. Ruins of A. N. Towne mansion on California Street at far left center. The building's portico was moved to Lloyd Lake in Golden Gate Park in 1909 and became known as Portals of the Past.
Nob Hill
Market near Geary
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north from Market St. to remains of the Humboldt Savings Bank office at 626 Market. The bank refurbished that small building and reopened before moving to a large skyscraper to the west, near 4th Street. Horse and Wagon, workers on Oakland Traction Company tower truck work on overhead streetcar wires. Sign for Lacey Saloon to right of bank entrance. East wall of Chronicle Building at left.
Downtown / Union Square
Clay near Montgomery
View southeast on Clay toward Montgomery. the southwest corner lot is filled with rubble. The Bank of Italy (later Bank of America) building, 550 Montgomery, is under construction on the southeast corner.
Financial District
Stockton near Bush
Wooden trough in vacant lot at SE corner. 590 Bush in left background.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Jones
[S.F. Cal, Mar, 17 '09] Elevated view west across track work and up McAllister Street. Hotel Apollo, Hibernia Bank, Pragers store on its pre-quake site. Old City Hall dome being demolished, dome of Hall of Records in distance center.
Tenderloin
Market & 4th
Humboldt Savings Bank, 785 Market St. under construction. Open pit at corner. Hagedorn & Pilster, Regal Shoes, Raggett's saloon. Streetcars [B-25] [G810 B-025] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Market & 4th
View east on Market toward 4th Street to Pacific, Humboldt Bank and Call Buildings. [Pacific & Humboldt Bank Buildings, SS Market St, Corner 4th, BU-31] [G810 BU-031] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Front near California
View south to men 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 wnp4.1591 (same original image), wnp71.0095 [EF-111] [G810 EF-111] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District