Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View East on Geary from Union Square, Food line for workers, Whittell Building under construction, Mutual Savings Bank in distance
Downtown / Union SquareRuins
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Nob Hill
After 1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south from Nob Hill, approximately Taylor and Pine. Hall of Records and City Hall to right, reconstruction in progress. Post Office & Court of Appeals, St. Boniface Church in middle distance, center. Potrero Hill, Bernal Heights, Mt. San Bruno in background. Jones St. Cable Car at intersection, lower right.
Nob Hill
South Van Ness near 17th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, titled houses on South Van Ness (then Howard) just south of 17th Street and a few doors north of the famous 'Drunken Houses'. The house on the right still stands at 635 South Van Ness. 2100 block of Howard, now the 600 block of South Van Ness.
Mission
California & Taylor
1906 Earthquake and Fire. Ruins of the front entrance to the Alban Towne Mansion, moved to Golden Gate Park in 1909 as Portals of the Past.
Nob Hill
View from Mint Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northeast across Hayes Valley to city burning, from above Buchanan & Waller, Laguna Street crossing at center. Outbuildings of Protestant Orphan Asylum and schoolhouse at left. St. Ignatius Church & College, old City Hall at center. Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill in distance left.
Mint Hill
View from Telegraph Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire ruins, View southeast from Telegraph Hill, probably Green near Montgomery, toward Ferry Building with post-earthquake scaffolding. Same image as wnp28.046.
Telegraph Hill
11th near Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast across 11th to Church of the Advent (Episcopalian) in ruins, covered with advertising. City Hall in background. New lumber in street, sign for Central Lumber Mill, new construction at left.
South of Market
Market near Powell
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast across intersection to Army soldiers patrolling Market Street as Call Building burns in background left. Emporium, California Academy of Sciences and Flood Building at 4th and Market in distance.
Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Flood Building, gutted by the fire
Downtown / Union Square
S. Van Ness near 17th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, "Drunken Houses" damaged by earthquake. Howard St. (now South Van Ness Ave) between 17th and 18th Streets. Spectators in street.
Mission
Market & McAllister
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Hibernia Bank, fire damage [129]
Tenderloin
California & Grant
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Old St. Mary's Church, earthquake damage
Chinatown
Holy Cross Church
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Holy Cross Church in ruins, Earthquake damage, woman walking and reading paper.
Western Addition
Jefferson Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Refugees in Jefferson Square along Golden Gate Avenue between Laguna and Octavia. Smoke from fire in background.
Cathedral 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