Eddy near Divisadero
1906 Earthquake and Fire, ruins of Holy Cross Church
Western AdditionRuins
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Embarcadero & Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Embarcadero (then East Street) at Market. View west across Embarcadero toward burning Victorian Building with water being pumped on it. Magnolia Cafe, Pacific Ticket Office, 2 East Street South. (wnp27.1341 for a slightly earlier view)
Financial District
Embarcadero & Sacramento
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Embarcadero (then East Street) at Market. View West across Embarcadero in front of the Ferry Building up Sacramento Street. Billowing smoke, men gathered with belongings. Hotel Terminus, Ensign Saloon, Pacific Coast Steamship Company, Bowers Rubber Company 24 Sacramento, with partially collapsed wall.
Financial District
View from Russian Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east toward Telegraph Hill and burned out North Beach from about Leavenworth Street between Greenwich and Filbert. Washington Square, St. Francis of Assisi Church, the Ferry Building in the distance at right
Russian Hill
South Van Ness near 18th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north on South Van Ness (then Howard Street) toward 'Drunken Houses' between 17th and 18th Street. Child posing in the street. Cyanotype photo.
Mission
Union near Steiner
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on Union between Pierce and Steiner. Repair work on cable car tracks damaged by earthquake. St Mary the Virgin Episcopal church (1891) at right. (see also wnp37.03422)
Cow Hollow
Unknown Location
1906 Earthquake and Fire, workers shoveling debris from the street. ( view toward Market?)
Kearny near Sacramento
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north on Kearny near Sacramento, Hall of Justice tower on the right, Telegraph Hill in the distance. Portsmouth Square with tents and trees in the left background. People walking and riding in buggies. The street has been cleared, but the sidewalks strewn with rubble.
Chinatown
Sutter near Larkin
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest from Sutter Street east of Larkin. Heller, Klein & Co. listed as Larkin between Sutter & Bush. Trinity Episcopal Church (Bush & Gough) in the background left. Lafayette Park in the background right.
Lower Nob Hill
South Van Ness near 17th
1906 earthquake and fire, view across south Van Ness (then Howard Street) between 17th and 18th. Earthquake damaged houses known as the Drunken Houses.
Mission
Geary & Fillmore
1906 Earthquake and Fire. View west on Geary from Fillmore, ruins of Temple Beth Israel, Albert Pike Memorial Masonic Temple.
Western Addition
Geary & Fillmore
1906 Earthquake and Fire. View south across Geary near Fillmore, ruins of Temple Beth Israel.
Western Addition
Geary & Fillmore
1906 Earthquake and Fire. View west on Geary from Fillmore, ruins of Temple Beth Israel and Albert Pike Memorial Masonic Temple.
Western Addition
Mission Dolores
1906 Earthquake and Fire. Two people posing in front of earthquake damaged Mission Dolores and adjacent Gothic Revival church.
Mission Dolores
3rd & Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire. Entrance to the Call/Spreckels Building, large banner reading 'The San Francisco Call Will Occupy These Premises About May 21st 1906. With a Larger and Better Equipment Than Ever Before.' Examiner Building under construction at left.
South of Market