Ruins

Contains 2070 photos

Market & Battery
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Market & Battery

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest to information kiosk set up in front of the Donahue Monument after 1906 earthquake and fire, with woman selling buttermilk for 5 cents a glass and signs promoting buttermilk for health and longevity. Merchants Exchange in background.

Financial District
Union Square
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Union Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view east of the fire after the earthquake from St. Francis Hotel. Geary and Stockton intersection at bottom center. [The Burning of San Francisco]. Names of streets and some buildings written in margins.

Downtown / Union Square
Call Building
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Call Building

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Call Building on fire. View from Kearny near Geary.

Downtown / Union Square
Hayes Street
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Hayes Street

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [A view from Hayes St. S.F.] Earthquake rubble and ruins

Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

1906 Earthquake and Fire, view west from bay to Ferry Building, tower surrounded by scaffolding after earthquake. Call Building in distance left, Fairmont Hotel in distance right. [Ferry Bldg. San Francisco, Cal. & Bay]

South Van Ness near 18th
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South Van Ness near 18th

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Drunken Houses on South Van Ness (then Howard) between 17th and 18th

Mission
Conservatory of Flowers
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Conservatory of Flowers

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [The Conservatory, Golden Gate Park San Francisco] Two women posing amid landscaping.

Golden Gate Park
Kearny near Post
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Kearny near Post

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view southwest to Call Building on fire. 700 Market Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Raphael's, M. A. Gunst Co. on Kearny. Hotel Graystone at right.

Downtown / Union Square
Sutter & Polk
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Sutter & Polk

1906 Earthquake and Fire, URR Powerhouse Ruins Old car barn and powerhouse, Sutter and Polk Streets

Lower Nob Hill
Sutter & Stockton
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Sutter & Stockton

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins and rubble. Whittell Building

Downtown / Union Square
Downtown ruins 1906
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Downtown ruins 1906

Looking NW towards Nob Hill from near Post and Montgomery. Fairmont Hotel in background, Grace Church at right.

Downtown / Union Square
Earthquake ruins
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Earthquake ruins

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Telegraph Hill in background?

Unknown location
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Unknown location

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Large corner apartment building partially collapsed, street erupted, people passing.

Valencia & 19th
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Valencia & 19th

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view northwest across Valencia to collapsed Valencia Street Hotel between 18th and 19th Streets before fire burned the block. Many people in street. Cropped from image wnp27.4951.

Mission
Market & Grant
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Market & Grant

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to earthquake ruins and rubble, Mutual Savings Bank Building.

Downtown / Union Square