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Elevated view south toward 3rd and Market Streets, past 'Newspaper Corner,' taken from a rooftop near Geary and Kearny. From left: Chronicle Building, Examiner Building, and Call (Spreckels) Building. Monaco Photography Studio signage on side of Flannery Building. [The Chronicle, Examiner Call Buildings W.C. Billington Photo]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on Geary between Fillmore and Webster, people posed in the street with stoves and street kitchens, cable car tracks in the street. 1st English Evangelical Lutheran Church in the distance. This is fairly soon after the earthquake, initially cooking was required as far as possible from buildings. Later street kitchens were allowed to move to the sidewalk. (JF) This area completely demolished in redevelopment. (see also wnp37.00138)
Japantown
View west from Yerba Buena Island, city skyline and Golden Gate Bridge in the distance. [10733]
Yerba Buena Island
View southeast from the sidewalk on California Street between Kearny and Grant, cable car, Hotel Yolanda (with Hotel Lafayette sign on west side), Clunie Building with Lincoln National Life ad on west side, Morgan Printing Co., Hotel Los Angeles. In background left, Southern Pacific Building, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop, J. Harold Dollar (Balfour) Building, Bay Bridge. At right, Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery completed 1930, demolished 1969), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Bodie's. [11056]
Chinatown
View south from SF Bay towards the end of Meiggs Wharf. Taylor Street at center. [188. San Francisco from boat.]
View east from center of Market Street towards arch built for Christian Endeavor convention. Call Building in distance. Haight Street cable cars, in center distance and #154 at right. On right, Emporium, California Academy of Sciences, old 1887 Flood Building. Flags and banners strung over street. [196. Market Street 'Arch of Welcome' and Emporium Building]
Downtown / Union Square
View east on Fulton Street toward City Hall, large parade with military units marching toward Market Street. Orpheum Theatre, Main Library, empty lot where the Federal Office Building would be built in 1936.
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view north from about Balboa and Funston towards 1906 refugee camp known as Camp Richmond, refugee cottages lined up on the site of Park Presidio Boulevard. The Presidio in the background. [J-16 2400 Refugee Cottages, after great fire - 13th Ave.]
Richmond Inner
1906 Earthquake and Fire, refugee camp No. 5 at Big Rec showing tents and long barracks, Mt. Sutro and Affiliated Colleges (later UCSF) in the background. [J-164 S.F. after the fire - Refugees' Camp, Golden Gate Park.]
Golden Gate Park
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Sharon Meadow Refugee camp No. 7 showing tents lined up. Sign reads, Camp No. 3, which was a subdivision of the larger camp. [J-161 Refugee Camp, Golden Gate Park]
Golden Gate Park
1906 Earthquake and Fire, refugee camp at Speedway Meadow for the feeble and infirm. View east, Prayerbook Cross in the background. [J-230 1200 Apartments for fire refugees, Park Speedway.]
Golden Gate Park
Elevated view east on Market from Ellis and Stockton Streets, showing downtown reconstruction projects after 1906 Earthquake. Phelan Building under construction at left, Mutual Savings Bank and Chronicle annex beyond. Call Building, Call Building Annex, Kamm Building in the background at center, Monadnock Building, Metropolis Trust & Savings Bank Building (under construction, completed early 1908) beyond. Royal Shoes, Old Crow Saloon (T.M. Ferguson Co.), large signs for 'Future Home of Kragens, The Workingman's Store" and Sorensen Co. Jewelers & Opticians. [Market St.]
Downtown / Union Square
View west from Laguna Honda and Woodside towards the entrance of Laguna Honda Hospital. (Copy of wnp27.6970)
Laguna Honda
View northwest toward Nob Hill from Chronicle Building at 3rd and Market Streets. Temple Emanu-El, Crocker Mansion, Mark Hopkins Mansion, and Stanford Mansion. [A view of Nob Hill from Chronicle Building]
Downtown / Union Square
USF soccer game on St. Ignatius playing field at Turk and Parker, Barbarians vs. American Teutonic Club. Lone Mountain College for Women in the background.
Lone Mountain