Contains 7784 photos
Elevated view east on Market from Third St. 700 Market Building, Masonic Temple and original Hobart Building on left. Palace Hotel, Grand Hotel and Nucleus Hotel with Beamish's Shirts in corner retail space at right; cable cars; horsecars; old Ferry Building in distance. Davis Bros. Golden Rule Bazaar at lower left. Tower of Masonic Temple background left. Same image as Taber B 2145, see wnp37.02867. [Market St. San Francisco Before the Fire]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View towards Golden Gate with Lobos Square refugee cottages. Gas House cove gas tank at center. View northwest toward Golden Gate from near Chestnut and Polk. Harbor View SF Gas Company tank. The intersection of Van Ness and Chestnut at bottom left. Ferry Bros. Hay & Grain, 2955 Van Ness near Francisco.. Same image as wnp15.603, slightly different cropping.
Russian Hill
View west from Russian Hill over Marina District with large gas tank (gasometer) in foreground. Letterman Hospital, Presidio Main Post, and Fort Winfield Scott in distance.
Marina
Onlookers viewing driftwood debris of the wreck of Yosemite on Ocean Beach. Tossed in the surf, the wreck destroyed a section of the Lurline Pier.
Sutro Heights
View west over North Beach towards the Golden Gate and Fort Point. Sand dunes of White Point at center right, with Black Point (later Fort Mason) beyond. Large white house atop ridge at left is Humphrey's Castle, built 1852, demolished 1949. Gold Rush brig Euphemia, used by the city at various times and locations as both a prison and an insane asylum, moored along shore at center.
Telegraph Hill
Looking southwest from Fort Winfield Scott bluffs towards Lands End and City Cemetery (future Lincoln Park). Baker Beach (aka Baker's Beach) in foreground.
Presidio
Elevated view northwest to post-fire ruins of old Hall of Justice at center and reconstruction. View to Russian Hill. Montgomery Block at right. Shannon-Conmy Printing, California Fruit Canneries. E.J. Shattuck Co. Sentinel Building (Columbus Tower) at far right.
Financial District
Elevated view southwest to Pacific Heights. Old St. Brigid Church (1864-1897) at Van Ness and Broadway. Lafayette Park at background left. Large house with Mansard roof and rear tower left of Center is William C. Talbot house (S.C. Bugbee & Son Architect, built 1872 NE Corner Jackson & Franklin, demolished 1931).
Polk Gulch
View northwest toward Cow Hollow. Intersection of Pierce and Broadway at bottom. House at 2502 Broadway still standing. Henry Casebolt House (SF Landmark, built 1865) behind white fence past Vallejo St. on Pierce. Small church beyond Casebolt House was built in 1887 with funds provided by Stephen S. Smith, deacon of the Plymouth Congregational Church and publisher of the Pacific. In 1895, it became the Pierce Street Congregational Church. Large mansion at southwest corner of Pierce and Union was built circa 1884 by wealthy attorney and landowner David Bixler. Four story windmill and water tank across Union. Bay and Presidio tidal slough in distance.
Pacific Heights
View north on 2nd Street from Folsom. Telegraph Hill in the right distance. St. Francis of Assisi Church on horizon.
South of Market
[7593 Presidio from upper road...], Taber Photo. From today's Inspiration Point
Presidio
View east on California Street to intersection with Grant Avenue and beyond. Reconstruction in progress, some ruins still present. Sing Chong and Sing Fat Buildings. Old St Mary's steeple at left. Kohl and Merchants' Exchange Buildings in distance. Alaska Commercial Building, Clunie Building. In far distance, Fife Building (opened 1909) is under construction.
Chinatown
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Kohl Building, Merchant Exchange
Nob Hill
View northeast from a rooftop on Liberty Street near Valencia. William Third & Son, Importers of Dry Goods 930 Valencia. Victorians in the foreground 929 & 933 Valencia, as well as the white Victorian at center (3561 - 3565 20th at Lexington), still stand. 1906 fire line is evident along the north side of 20th Street.
Mission
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view toward Telegraph Hill; from approx. Clay near Taylor. Powell St. RR smokestack at right. Duplicate of wnp27.3770
Nob Hill