Market & Ellis
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [#6 Market & Ellis; Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal.] Earthquake ruins; view east to Call Building; refugees walking; Red Cross agent on bicycle
Downtown / Union SquareRuins
Contains 2070 photos
Market & Jones
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [#2 Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal; Pragers Market & Jones] View east to earthquake ruins, civilian with rifle, police officer, Red Cross agent in auto in front of ruins of Prager's Department Store (Murphy Building) ; Flood and Call buildings in distance. Market Street filled with debris.
Tenderloin
Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [34 Union Square] Earthquake ruins; view southeast from Post & Powell intersection across square to Whittell Building and City of Paris; Dewey Monument. Butler Building at right.
Downtown / Union Square
Stockton & Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north on Stockton St. Two National Guard soldiers in street, one holding a rifle, amid earthquake ruins; From left: Butler Building under construction, City of Paris and Whittell Building. In far distance, steeple of Grace Church at Stockton and California Streets. [#11 Ellis [Sic] & Market Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal.]
Downtown / Union Square
Third & Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [79. Mutual Savings Bank Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal.] Gutted buildings after earthquake and fire; view north on Third Street.
South of Market
California & Sansome
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins and gutted buildings; View southeast to Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York on southeast corner. Bottom stories later retained and reconstructed. Ruins of Friedlander's Building at left. [81. Mutual Life Ins. Bldg.; Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal.][Calif. & Sansome]
Financial District
Post & Montgomery
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [16] National Guard soldiers gathered in intersection; ruins of Masonic Temple after earthquake.
Downtown / Union Square
Mission near 1st
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [#30 on Mission St.; Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal] Dead cattle on street with earthquake ruins.
Financial District
Palace Hotel
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [34. Palace Hotel; Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal] Earthquake ruins of Palace Hotel with windows boarded up; pedestrians and overloaded streetcar passing. View from Market and Geary
Downtown / Union Square
Bush near Montgomery
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [77. Mills Bldg. Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal.] View to gutted Mills Building after 1906 earthquake and fire. Merchants Exchange Building and Kohl Building at left.
Financial District
Post & Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [#78 Crocker Woolworth Bldg. Western Photographic Co., L.A., Cal.] View west at gutted Crocker Building after 1906 earthquake and fire. Coffee stand. Chronicle and Mutual Bank Building at left.
Financial District
Grant near Sacramento
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View through archway at Hall of Justice on Portsmouth Square. [74. Ruins in Chinatown. Western Photographic Co., L.A., Cal.]
Chinatown
2nd & Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [#48] View west to Mutual Savings Bank Building, Chronicle Building and Annex, Crocker Building. At far right Union Trust Building AKA Nevada Bank Bldg, Wells Fargo Union Trust Building (built in 1893-1894, demolished in 1966); packed street car.
Financial District
View E from Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [No. 96] Elevated view from Fairmont Hotel looking down California St. after earthquake and fire; ruins, Ferry Building, Kohl Building; Old St. Mary's Church; Merchants Exchange; Grace Church; Mills Building, South of Market and Bay.
Nob Hill
Kearny near Pine
1906 Earthquake and Fire [No. 60 Kearney between Bush & Pine looking SW; R.J. Waters & Co.] Southwest view panorama with Call Building at far left, Pacific States Telephone Building; earthquake ruins; street car tracks
Financial District