Ruins

Contains 2070 photos

Hyde near Ellis
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Hyde near Ellis

View north to earthquake damaged ruins of Iroquois Hotel on Ellis St. Fairmont Hotel partly visible at center. Adams Hotel at right. Portion of Cornelia Apartments, 641 O'Farrell at left.

Tenderloin
10th & Market
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10th & Market

View northwest to City Hall ruins. The Burlington rooming house, 125 Larkin.

South of Market
Bush & Taylor
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Bush & Taylor

View northeast across Bush to ruins of Engine Company No. 38 fire house, later site of Dennis T. Sullivan Memorial Fire Chief's Home. Ruins of Fairmont Hotel and Flood Mansion in distance left. To right of Fairmont 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. A large new apartment building is behind the fire house

Lower Nob Hill
Golden Gate near Taylor
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Golden Gate near Taylor

1906 Earthquake and Fire, earthquake damage to Siminoff Building on the north side of Golden Gate near Taylor, Same building in wnp27.37003

Tenderloin
Leavenworth near Post
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Leavenworth near Post

1906 earthquake and fire, View south on Leavenworth toward the ruins of SF Verein, northeast corner of Post and Leavenworth(see also wnp27.3693)

Lower Nob Hill
California & Jones
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California & Jones

William H. Crocker mansion, earthquake and fire ruins at northeast corner of California and Jones. Site of Grace Cathedral.

Nob Hill
Golden Gate  near Taylor
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Golden Gate near Taylor

1906 Earthquake and Fire, earthquake damage to Siminoff Building on the north side of Golden Gate near Taylor, Same building as in wnp27.3700 and wnp26.1870.

Tenderloin
Sutter & Jones
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Sutter & Jones

View northeast toward the Flood Mansion and Fairmont Hotel

Lower Nob Hill
Hyde near Ellis
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Hyde near Ellis

View north to ruins of Iroquois Hotel on Ellis. Cornelia Apartments, 641 O'Farrell at left.

Tenderloin
Market & Montgomery
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Market & Montgomery

Market Street looking east from Montgomery. Street work in progress with sign for 'San Francisco Gas & Electric Co.' [dpwbook5 dpw1393]

Financial District
Grove & Larkin
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Grove & Larkin

Elevated view east from the Civic Auditorium along City Hall Avenue. Preparation for Grove Street extension to Market is underway. Marshall Square with Pioneer (Lick) Monument in its original location which would become the corner of Hyde and Grove. Methodist Book Concern Building, 3 City Hall Ave.(Now 83 McAllister) in distance left with large sign atop. On Market St. near 7th are Grant Building, Odd Fellows Hall, American Theatre. At far right, rear of Robison Bros. Bird Store, 1260 Market (which stands in 2019 as the Wells Fargo Bank Building (1908), 1256-1264 Market, one of only two buildings remaining along the City Hall Avenue alignment). [dpwbook10 dpw2080]

Civic Center
Marina near Scott
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Marina near Scott

Remains of the Panana-Pacific International Exhibition, two years after the fair. Palace of Fine Arts (left), Column of Progress (center), and California Building (right) [Marina Blvd W near Scott. Fine Arts dpwbook19 dpw4232]

Marina
Stockton near Pine
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Stockton near Pine

View west across Stockton near Pine [Stockton / Pine SW corner dpwbook22 dpw5324]

Nob Hill
North Beach Ruins
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North Beach Ruins

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Looking east from Union & Leavenworth Sts. after earthquake & fire [One of the Sights Which Beggars Description--Telegraph Hill Looking East from Union and Leavenworth Streets--San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Disaster of April 18, 1906.] Long description of time of earthquake on back.

Russian Hill
Union near Pierce
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Union near Pierce

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on Union between Pierce & Steiner Earthquake damaged tracks and cracks in Union St. Street kitchens in distance. [8201 Union Street, rent by the great earthquake--San Francisco, Cal.] Information on back. Cropped version of image at wnp27.4648.

Cow Hollow