Ruins

Contains 2070 photos

Battery & Bush
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Battery & Bush

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast towards fire raging on south side of Market Street in Lachman Block next door to Excelsior Glove Co. (415 Market). Donahue Mechanics Monument, fire pumper engine. Sheldon Block at 1st St. corner. [Showing SE corner 1st Market April 18th 1906 EF-21 61 F] [F810 EF-021] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
2nd & Dow
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2nd & Dow

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Rincon Hill. View west at homes tilted off foundations, collapsed wood sheds and houses. [Dow St off Second St bet Folsom - Harrison St looking West 56.F EF-22 April 19th 1906] [F810 EF-022] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

South of Market
Portsmouth Square
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Portsmouth Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast toward Hall of Justice. Man (identified as writer Henry Lafler) with typewriter set up on trunk. Temporary graves in Portsmouth Square (many versions of this image exist) [April 19, 1906 on the Plaza] [57F] [F810 EF-024] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Chinatown
Capp near 17th
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Capp near 17th

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Clearer duplicate of wnp37.01069 but missing stereoview caption. Ground eruption and buckled sidewalk from 1906 earthquake. Automobile. [Cracks in St. Capp St. SF 1906 EF-25] [F810 EF-025] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Mission
View S from Nob Hill
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View S from Nob Hill

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Fire and smoke along Market Street south. People watching from rooftop, spire of First Congregational Church at Post and Mason. [South from Nob Hill No. 71.F EF-27 April 18, 1906.] [F810 EF-027] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Nob Hill
Pierce near Union
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Pierce near Union

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [EF-28 Street Kitchen SF April 1906] Woman and men cooking over fire brick oven. View northwest to 2901 Pierce, on corner of Pierce and Union (extant in 2018). Copied from stereoview.[F810 EF-028] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Cow Hollow
Mission near 8th
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Mission near 8th

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north to ruins of City Hall and Hall of Records. Refugees from earthquake with crude sheet metal shelter. [8198-Dwellings of homeless--shelter built of wreckage, near City Hall.] [EF-29 April 1906] [F810 EF-029] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

South of Market
Lower Market Street
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Lower Market Street

1906 Earthquake and Fire, People, wagons and automobile, on Market Street, with ruins behind. Street wet. [EF-30 Leaving San Francisco April 20, 1906] [F810 EF-030] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Union near Van Ness
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Union near Van Ness

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Duplicate of wnp27.6601. View southeast toward Van Ness. Fire and smoke. Refugees with belongings in empty lot. Building at left, east side of Van Ness between Union and Green, would burn. Same image as 27.6601 with different cropping. [EF-31 No. 72 Burning west side Van Ness Ave South of Union April 1906] [F810 EF-031] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Union Street
Fairmont Hotel
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Fairmont Hotel

Nob Hill, Elevated view northwest across intersection of Powell and California, unrestored Flood Mansion (restored 1910 for Pacific-Union Club) at left background, 1906 ruins of Stanford Mansion at left. United Railroads Powell Street cable car

Nob Hill
Nob Hill
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Nob Hill

1906 Earthquake and fire, Ruins of Nob Hill. Elevated View southeast from near Washington near Taylor toward the intersection of Taylor and Sacramento, Fairmont Hotel and Flood mansion at center. Tents in the backyard of Flood Mansion

Nob Hill
Maiden Lane near Kearny
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Maiden Lane near Kearny

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Damaged buildings. View east on Maiden Lane (Morton St) towards Gruenhagen Bros. Candy Manufacturer at 20 Kearny Street. Between 1898 and 1909, Morton Street/Maiden Lane was named Union Square Avenue. (PF) [F810 EF-129]] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Market & New Montgomery
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Market & New Montgomery

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Stereoview west to Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building and Call Building. People walking with suitcases, Horses and wagons. [8703 Palace Hotel, undamaged by earthquake, Interior burned out, San Francisco Disaster.] [F810 EF-039] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
View E from Nob Hill
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View E from Nob Hill

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Superior duplicate of wnp37.00499. View of ruins from Fairmont Hotel after earthquake and fire down California Street past Grace Church, St. Mary's Church, Merchants Exchange and Kohl Building to Ferry Building in distance. Mills Building on right. [Calif St 1906 EF-63] [F810 EF-063] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Nob Hill
Market & 3rd
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Market & 3rd

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south across Market to 3rd Street and seven-story Winchester Hotel burning at southwest corner of 3rd and Stevenson Street, next to H. Schoene photograph gallery. Aronson Building beyond. Soldiers and others look on. [Examiner Bldg. South on 3rd from Market St April 18, 1906 EF-60 Call Bldg. 64.F] [F810 EF-060] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

South of Market