Contains 352 photos
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south on New Montgomery to fire roaring out of windows of Crossley building. Grand Hotel at left. [NE Cor New Montgy & Mission. Copyright 1906. Pillsbury Picture Co. Crossley Bldg.] (Hand colored version wnp59.00046b)
South of Market
[Oil Tank at Meggs Wharf. Copyright 1906. Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 117] Ships on bay, smoke.
Big crowd watching the approaching fire looking south on Stockton towards Market. H. A. McLaren & C. J. Petersen Tailors. The Pup Restaurant, unofficial headquarters of Abe "Boss" Ruef on left, ["Grant Avenue,"[Sic] No. 8, Pillsbury Picture Co.1906"]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast to people viewing the great fire after the 1906 earthquake. Top of Call Building visible in distance.
Pacific Heights
View east towards Market Street of great fire following 1906 earthquake. Wagon, people watching, Burke's Saloon.
Lower Haight
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest across Market to New Montgomery intersection. Fire at the Palace Hotel, smoke pouring down street beside Grand Hotel at left. Same original image as postcard at wnp70.1233.
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north down Van Ness near Green or Union. Houses burning, men running, Marin headlands in background. Man sits among charred ruins watching a block be consumed by fire after the 1906 earthquake.
Polk Gulch
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast across the Western Addition of the fire after the 1906 earthquake. Washington St. at left, Cooper Medical College, which later became Stanford University Department of Medicine and Pacific Medical Center and Temple Sherith Israel at right.
Pacific Heights
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
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
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on Golden Gate to people, many standing on construction materials watching fire devour area south of Market Street. Golden Gate Livery Stable 24 Golden Gate Ave., Pragers Department Store (Murphy Building), Marks Bros., Galt House. Hale's Department Store on 6th across Market. (Inferior copy photo of wnp70.10065)
Tenderloin
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south on Stockton towards approaching fire on Market Street. Mannie's Loan Office (32 Stockton), J. Cooper Shirts. The Pup Restaurant on left, just beyond Mannie's Loan office. Old 1887 Flood Building, California Academy of Sciences, Emporium on Market. [14]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east down 15th Street. Site of McKinley Elementary School, German Hospital (later Franklin, and CPMC Davies) under construction at far left, the future Mint Hill at left. [Fire in South of Market]
Corona Heights
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins and fire . View east on Sacramento. Rubble in street, people watching fire in distance. Owen H. Smyth, printer, 511 Sacramento at right. Old What Cheer House.
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Looking south towards City Hall at left. People milling as fire approaches after 1906 earthquake.
Tenderloin