Contains 2070 photos
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins. View northeast through ruins to Telegraph Hill in distance. [8186 - In the ruined city - from Powell and California Streets., N.E. to Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, Cal. Copyright 1906. U-91993]
Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest across field of rubble to Old U.S. Mint at 5th and Mission Streets. [8187-United States Mint, surrounded by the ruins of earthquake and fire, San Francisco, Cal. U-91119]
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [?503 - City Hall (cost $3,000,000) after the Fire and Earthquake, San Francisco, Cal.] Artist painting ruins, stacks of pipes.
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins. View west down Post to Whittell Building at left, First Congregational Church in distance right. Men walk down street filled with rubble. [8706 Post St., once a busy shopping district, now a scene of desolation, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. Copyright 1906 by H. C. White Co.]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest to woman cooking at street kitchen. Earthquake and fire ruins behind. Wagon, horses, barrels. Lick Baths (10th St., between Mission and Howard) and City Hall ruins in background center. [Stereoview card caption 'Making the best of trying circumstances. Cooking [...?] streets of San Francisco]
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Men with large basins digging and salvaging metal pans, pots, and silver. Brick wall behind and building ruins. Ruins of Sentinel Building, Hall of Justice in background.
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to ruins on Post Street [8197-Homeless among the ruins of former wealth - crude shelters in Union Square, San Francisco, Cal. Copyright 1906 by Underwood & Underwood] Old man in rocking chair, park green and tents, building ruins behind.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northeast from Van Ness near Pine to Nob Hill, Clay Street Tank in distance right. [8191-Nob Hill, from which wealth and splendor were driven by the great fire - San Francisco, Cal. Copyright 1906 by Underwood & Underwood U-91102] Granite staircase, fence, with ruins behind.
Polk Gulch
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Looking west from California St. [8192-Skeleton of the famous Fairmount Hotel, gutted by the great fire, San Francisco, Cal.] Fairmont Hotel, cable car tracks, earthquake ruins.
Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to Telegraph Hill St. Francis of Assisi church amid ruins at center. [8710 A desolate and forbidding scene - Telegraph Hill from Nob Hill, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. Copyright 1906 by H. C. White Co.]
Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View North on Capp Street near 17th, Buckled Sidewalks [8714 Great cracks in street and settling sidewalks, Capp Street, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. Copyright 1906 by H. C. White Co.] Broken sidewalks, sunken street, automobile, wagon, ruins.
Mission
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [8701 General view of burned area, Market St. on left) from Ferry Tower, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. Copyright 1906 by H. C. White Co.] Earthquake ruins
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [8271-Looking south on Van Ness Avenue where the great fire was checked. San Francisco, Cal. Copyright 1906 by Underwood & Underwood. U-91583] Street kitchen, pup tents, men in horse-pulled wagon. Ruins behind.
Pacific Heights
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view west from Ferry Building tower scaffolding over wholesale district, Nob Hill Fairmont Hotel, Appraiser's Building in distance, earthquake ruins and early reconstruction.[8280-Fairmount Hotel and Nob Hill, west from Ferry Bldg. Tower over miles of ruins, San Francisco, Cal. Copyright 1906 by Underwood & Underwood. U-91730]
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, 1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest to man posing with earthquake ruins and skyline behind, from left, Chronicle Annex, Call and Mutual Savings Bank Buildings, Whittell Building, Hall of Justice, Old St. Mary's, Grace Church. Sentinel /Columbus Tower under construction. From about Montgomery and Montague. [8284-From Telegraph Hill S.W. over the great ruined business section, San Francisco, Cal. Copyright 1906 by Underwood & Underwood. U-91721] Same image, different cropping as wnp24.324a.
Telegraph Hill