View from Russian Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view southeast from Russian Hill near Vallejo and Taylor. Sky filled with smoke, Hall of Justice on Kearny Street at center, not yet burned (copy negative by Mulin 1952).
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1906 Earthquake
1906 Earthquake and Fire, possibly Russian Hill, wall of smoke in the background, ruins, chimneys ash in the foreground
Franklin near Bush
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view east from Franklin, people sitting on the sidewalk and cooking in street kitchens.Ruins of Marie Antoinette Apartments on Van Ness and Austin at right. Fairmont Hotel and Nob Hill in the background left.
Cathedral Hill
View from Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view south from Nob Hill showing wall of smoke south of Market, City Hall and Hall of Records in background right. Nob Hill buildings still intact before the fire reached them. The view is from the roof of the Tobin mansion at the southeast corner of California and Taylor (1871), now the site of the Huntington Hotel. Immediately left of Tobin's dormer is the five-story Hotel Bella Vista, built in 1883-1884 for Teresa Fair. To its left, at the southwest corner of Bush and Taylor, is a seven-story brick apartment building completed in late 1905. To its left, at the southeast corner of Pine and Taylor (across the street from the Bella Vista) is a five-story wood-framed apartment building built in 1903. (WMK)
Nob Hill
California near Leidesdorff
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view east on California towards Sansome St. Building with four chimneys (Friedlander Building)at center. Fire engine and people assembled in the street.
Financial District
Stockton & O'Farrell
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view south on Stockton from O'Farrell. Army and police on horseback possibly watching building demolition. Ruins of Emporium on Market Street in background right.
Downtown / Union Square
12th near Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northeast from possibly 12th Street from near Market and Mission toward Nob Hill, City Hall ruins and Church of the Advent ruins on 11th Street.
South of Market
Van Ness & Sutter
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view east from Van Ness near Sutter, workers stacking bricks in front of the ruins of St. Dustan's Hotel. People with horse and wagon.
Lower Nob Hill
Mission District in ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast from Mission District across many blocks of rubble. In far distance, left, Flood Building, Chronicle Annex, Call Building, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse at 7th and Mission.
Market near 4th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast across Market from 4th Street, Call Building in the background, smoke and flames billowing from the south side of 700-block of Market. Police with rifle patrolling, furniture piled in the street. [109 copyright 1906 by Stewart and Rogers]
Downtown / Union Square
8th near Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, City Hall Ruins. View north on 8th across Market toward Marshall Square and City Hall. Pioneer Monument at center in its original location. Sightseers, horse and wagons in the street [City Hall - 133 Bushnell Foto Co.]
South of Market
Sweeny Observatory
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Golden Gate Park, Ruins of Sweeny Observatory on the top of Strawberry Hill.
Golden Gate Park
Oakland
1906 Earthquake and Fire, ruins of Empire Theatre at 466 12th Street near Broadway in Oakland advertising the Marneys and Spectacular Shipwreck scene.
Outside SF
Mason & Geary
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Fairmont Hotel in background, First Congregational Church, and Native Sons of the Golden West Building.
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Franklin
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northeast from a sidewalk on Market near Franklin, City Hall ruins at right, Fairmont at center, people walking, horses and wagons.
Civic Center