Contains 244 photos
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Trainload potatoes EF-66] View northeast to earthquake and fire ruins, including Episcopalian Church of the Advent (11th near Market) at left. Boys sitting on sacks of potatoes. Horse drawn carts, ruins in distance. Variant of Underwood & Underwood stereoview card U-91374. [F810 EF-066] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of Market
[Ferry Depot San Francisco -- 1885 FB-7] Elevated view northeast across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building. Many horsecars, cable cars (one on turntable). Station D Post Office (opened October, 1884). 'C.P.R.R. Oakland, Alameda & Berkeley Ferry'. Signage for real estate auctions. [F810 FB-007] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
[Foot Market St. 1887 FB-9] Elevated view across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building, banner says 'At Auction 18 Choice Residence Lots', Castro Street cable car. [F810 FB-009] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Blurry view northwest across Market to Crocker Building at Market and Post. Original Hobart Building with Postal Telegraph Co. office at right. Chronicle Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building at left in distance.
Financial District
View southwest across intersection to new construction of Delbert Block after 1906 earthquake and fire. R. P. Hurlbut, contractor and builder. Plans called for two very large 4-story matching office and retail buildings, holding 300 offices and 38 stores, with a second story bridge over Olive St. connecting them (Arthur A. Lamb, architect). Delbert Block was demolished in 1910. Hotel Savoy on far left at Ellis Street. Between Hotel Savoy and Delbert Block is the Countryman Building under construction. [4230 Van Ness Sept 06] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Tenderloin
View of west side of Van Ness and relocated businesses after 1906 earthquake, including J. Zwerin & Son tailors, W. P. Buckingham & Co., M. Blaskower cigars, The Diamond House, Atlantic Fur Store. Buggies, delivery wagons. The Emporium in former Hecht residence at northwest corner of Post in distance. [ 4236 Van Ness Ave Aug 1906] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Cathedral Hill
View northwest toward Call Building. Reconstruction and clean up after 1906 earthquake. Rear of Monadnock Building shows construction almost complete. [4244 Clearing the site of the old Palace Hotel] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
South of Market
Elevated view northeast of reconstruction after 1906 earthquake, with crowded streetcar on Kearny. Site of United Cigar Stores Co. building at northwest corner of Geary & Kearny at lower right. Temporary building with several businesses across Kearny: M. A. Gunst & Co. A. J. Rich & Co. real estate, Maskey's Candies 32 Kearny. Streetcar, many steel frames for new buildings. In distance, surviving buildings on or near Montgomery St.: Mills Building, Merchants Exchange, Kohl Building. At left, steel framework for Oscar Luning Building 45-47 Kearny, at center (1907, Nathaniel Blaisdell, Architect). [4305 Kearny St from Market April 1907] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Downtown / Union Square
Looking east on California Street near Montgomery showing Wells Fargo in Parrott Building, or Parrott Block (1852, Architect Stephen Williams), Express Building, Safe Deposit Building, the second Merchants' Exchange Building, Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Co. at far right with pole in front., Watkins mobile studio at right, horsecar. [Cal St East from Montg. S.F. B=3677]
Financial District
View northeast across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street., various conveyances in front. [B 95 Oakland Ferry, Foot of Market Street, S.F., Cal - Taber]
Financial District
View northeast across Market to the Baldwin Hotel (built by E.J. Baldwin, destroyed by fire in 1898) at the corner of Market and Powell, later site of the Flood Building. [B 12. Balwin Hotel, S.F.Cal - Taber] Superior dupe of 70.0382.
South of Market
View east from near center of Market St. to St. Ann's building and Baldwin Hotel in distance on left. Horse car and cable car tracks. Utility poles with 8 crossbars on south side of Market. [B 924 Instantaneous View of Market St., S.F. - Taber]
South of Market
View northwest across Market to business corner. The Oriental Block at this point had a fifth story on its north side. Friedman & Rogers, Pompeian Saloon, The Helbing Hat Co., Kalamazoo Corset Co., Meyer Bros Clothing, M. Goldstone & Son. Same image as wnp37.02102. [Battery & Market 1905 SS-2] [F810 SS-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
View northeast across intersection to crowd posing in front of Bay State Market grocery in three story building. Metropolitan Hotel sign, Temple Shaari Zedek, barber shop. Harness & Carriage shop on right. The synagogue was built in 1854 as Temple Sherith Israel, but that congregation moved in 1870. A dissident group elected to stay at the synagogue, forming an Orthodox congregation with the new name. [Synagogue Sharrey (Sic) Zedek, SS-4 Showing the N.E. cor Bdway - Stockton St. Year 1889] [F810 SS-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
North Beach
View east on California. Safe Deposit Building on southeast corner, the second Merchants' Exchange Building beyond. Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Co. at far right with pole in front. [East on Calif St from Montgy St. 1889 SS-15] [F810 SS-015] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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