Sfheritage

Contains 2400 photos

Mason & Market
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Mason & Market

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to (left to right) Flood Building, Call Building, Emporium. People wandering streets amid earthquake ruins.

Tenderloin
Dore & Brannan
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Dore & Brannan

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Between 9th-10th St. Brannan Street] View south on Dore of ruptured street and tilted buildings after the earthquake.

Showplace Square
City Hall Ruins
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City Hall Ruins

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [City Hall from Polk and Hayes] Looking over rubble of Mechanics' Pavilion site.

Civic Center
9th & Bryant
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9th & Bryant

[9th below Bryant] Buckled tracks and street. Tilted buildings after earthquake.

Showplace Square
Kearny & Market
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Kearny & Market

Large crowd gathered in intersection and around Lotta's Fountain. A type Muni streetcar on B-line, so has to be before 1914. Possibly June 1913 opening of lower Market Street to extend the Geary streetcar line to Ferry Building. Palace Hotel in background

Downtown / Union Square
Post & Grant
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Post & Grant

1906 Earthquake and Fire. View north from Shreve Building. Telegraph Hill in distance. Ruins of Grace Church in left, Old St. Mary's Church in center distance. Tracks being put in on Sutter. (AS) [Looking up Grant Ave from Shreve & Co. Bldg.]

Downtown / Union Square
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

View of pool and man in front of Sweeny Observatory park panorama atop Strawberry Hill. The observatory was a gift to the park from Thomas U. Sweeney (Sweeney's name was misspelled on the observatory.)

Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

View across Music Concourse to Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, UCSF Medical Center in distance. Mount Sutro. Francis Scott Key Monument. Probably taken from tower of de Young Museum.

Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

View across Music Concourse to Memorial Museum. Originally constructed as the Fine Arts Building for 1894 Midwinter Fair, it was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. Building at left was originally the Royal Bavarian Pavilion at the 1894 Fair. It was converted into an annex to the Memorial Museum. Together with the Japanese Village (today's Tea Garden), these were the only buildings not demolished after the fair.

Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

Fine Arts Building for 1894 Midwinter Fair under construction, on the future Music Concourse. Later called Memorial Museum. Became part of the de Young Museum before being demolished in 1929.

Golden Gate Park
Oak & Lyon
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Oak & Lyon

East side of Lyon St. View south from Golden Gate Park panhandle.

Panhandle
View from Lone Mountain
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View from Lone Mountain

Part of panorama? Looking southwest. Early homes, Golden Gate Park, Chutes Theatre, Memorial de Young Museum, Spreckels Bandstand, Prayerbook Cross, St, Francis Riding stables.

Lone Mountain
Unknown Location
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Unknown Location

Man standing at entry of Victorian mansion with mansard roof and multiple bay windows. Wood plank sidewalks.

Van Ness & Pine
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Van Ness & Pine

The Robert N. Graves residence, later the Robert R. Thompson residence, at 1501 Van Ness Avenue (at the NW corner of Pine Street). It was built in 1876. It can also be seen in wnp27.3045. (WMK)

Pacific Heights
Bush near Stockton
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Bush near Stockton

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast to fire south of Market Street after 1906 earthquake. Palace Hotel, Chronicle Annex, Hearst Examiner Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Call Building, Shreve Building, Goldberg Bowen sign at left.

Chinatown