Contains 2070 photos
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest from Market and Powell, Lincoln School and Old Mint visible. Intact California Casket Company building (965 Mission, Albert Pissis Architect, extant 2020) behind mint to the right. Streetcars on 5th Street.
Downtown
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast towards City Hall and Nob Hill with Fairmont Hotel beyond
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire ruins, View southeast from Telegraph Hill, probably Green near Montgomery, toward Ferry Building with post-earthquake scaffolding. Same image as wnp26.817.
Telegraph Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View Northwest from Clay and Jones. Showing fire line along Van Ness Avenue and Fort Mason, Marin Headlands, Fort Point, Mt. Tamalpais. San Francisco Gas Works. Refugee tents or shacks in center right distance.
Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Albert Pike Memorial Temple - later the site of the People"s Temple
Western Addition
1906 Earthquake and Fire -Drunken Houses, South Van Ness (then Howard) between 17th & 18th
Mission
1906 Earthquake and Fire - View northeast to Drunken Houses, South Van Ness (then Howard) between 17th & 18th
Mission
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northwest of Old U.S. Mint from rubble-strewn lot following 1906 Earthquake & Fire. People and tents and makeshift shelters.[U.S. Mint Charles Bailey L.A. 80]
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north to couple walking down Sutter St. among earthquake ruins. Flood Mansion and Fairmont Hotel in background.
Downtown
View east from Nob Hill above Powell Street between Sacramento and Clay to Ferry Building over Chinatown. Earthquake and fire ruins exist, but much reconstruction has occurred. In left center distance, Appraisers Building, Montgomery Block, U.S. Customs House under construction. Bank of Italy Building at Montgomery and Clay. Donaldina Cameron House at Sacramento and Joice street at right. At far right, Kohl Building, Alaska Commercial Building (1907, Meyers and Ward, Architects). Posters on fence on Powell for the last week of David Warfield's engagement at the Alcazar Theatre and the Emporium's grand reopening on Market Street. Warfield's run concluded on October 10th and the Emporium, then California's largest store, reopened on October 1, 1908. (AS)
Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Looking south toward earthquake ruins downtown.
Downtown
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east towards Ferry Building. Tower repair scaffolding only partially installed.
Downtown
View north to Pioneer (James Lick) Monument at Marshall Square. Hall of Records in background. Current intersection of Grove and Hyde. Henry Johnson & Son Delicacies, 12 Marshall Square. City Hall demolished, Grove street would be extended to Market at this location in 1914. In 1993, the monument was moved to the pedestrian mall on Fulton Street between the Asian Art Museum and the new Main Library. French-made cannon to right of the monument was a Spanish-American war prize. It is now in the Presidio.
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east from center of Market Street near Fremont to Ferry Building. Union Block (Board of Trade Building) on Pine / Davis / Market gore corner, at left.
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east. Earthquake Damage. Flood Building in background, Admission Day/Native Sons Monument on left, Call Building, Emporium. duplicate of wnp4.1569
Downtown