Downtown Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire ruins, unknown location. Open vault door at right.
Ruins
Contains 2070 photos
City Hall Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeasterly from Larkin & Grove, down City Hall Avenue. Ruins of City Hall at left.
Civic Center
Market & California
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view southwest on Market across California Street at Drumm. Ruins of the Luning Building at right. Call Building at left in the distance.
Financial District
Pine & Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west on Pine from Market and Davis. Board of Trade Building (Union Block) at left. Merchants Exchange (with turret) in the distance.
Financial District
Clay St Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view east on Clay Street towards Ferry Building. Kohl and Merchants Exchange Buildings at right. (Not sure of cross street)
South Van Ness near 17th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north to east side of South Van Ness (then Howard) toward 'Drunken Houses' between 17th and 18th. Victorian homes tipped from earthquake, groups of people on sidewalk. Same image as wnp37.00894-L, different cropping. [192. Earthquake wrecked buildings on Howard St.][Copyright 1906 by Clinton Johnson 180]
Mission
Shotwell & 18th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Low angle view west from center of 18th Street. St Charles Borromeo school on right, lumber yard on left, giant crack or fissure through cobblestone street. Published as stereoview with caption 'Earthquake Action on 18th St."[Copyright 1906 by Clinton Johnson 188]
Mission
Shotwell near 21st
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north on Shotwell between 21st & 22nd. Street kitchens, Victorian homes (most still stand in this view). wnp15.1156 is same original image with different cropping.
Mission
Market & Sansome
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view east on Market from Sansome St. towards Ferry Building and large numbers of people walking. Rubble still in street, overhead wires for streetcars installed. [J-144 S.F. Ruins; Market East from Sansome St.] Large number of people walking in the street.
Financial District
Unknown Location
Building being demolished, or salvaged after collapse. Worker at center using axe to chop up wood timbers.
Market & Mason
1906 Earthquake and Fire. Workers constructing railroad tracks. [20626 Building Provisional Railroad through streets of ruined San Francisco, California] Flood Mansion on Nob Hill in far distance.
Downtown / Union Square
Flood Mansion
1906 Earthquake and Fire, ruins of burned out Flood Mansion on Nob Hill, viewed northwest across intersection of California and Mason Streets. Sightseers on sidewalks and in street.
Nob Hill
Clay near Stockton
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view east down Clay Street showing ruins of Chinatown. Tower of old Hall of Justice at left, Ferry Building in distance at end of Clay.
Chinatown
Golden Gate Park
Strawberry Hill, Sweeny Observatory (Sweeney) after collapsing during 1906 earthquake. The rock boundaries of reflecting pool in the foreground are still visible in 2020.
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
Strawberry Hill, Sweeny Observatory (Sweeney). Closeup of ruins after collapsing during 1906 earthquake.
Golden Gate Park