Church & 20th Sts.
Steam shovel at Church & 20th Sts. looking southeast 10:10 A.M. - United Railroads [U05346]
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Church & 22nd Sts.
Church & 22nd Sts. looking north 10:05 AM - United Railroads [U05413]
Noe Valley
View SE From Telegraph Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire ruins, View southeast from Telegraph Hill, probably Green near Montgomery, toward Ferry Building with post-earthquake scaffolding. Same image as wnp26.817.
Telegraph Hill
California near Sansome
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view west up California Street. Fairmont Hotel, Old St. Mary's Cathedral Grace Church in distance. Kohl Building, Parrott Block. Bank of California under construction at Sansome corner at right. Fireman's Fund Building across Sansome at left reduced to 2 stories and partially restored. At far left, Mutual Life Insurance Building. In distance left, Merchants Exchange Building. Beyond Bank of California construction at right, London & San Francisco Bank Building with flag on roof, showing earthquake damage to exterior, but occupied by Otis, Mc Allister & Co. coffee importers starting in late June, 1906. Just beyond, 3 story building with light granite facade is Mercantile Trust Co. building (Albert Pissis, Architect, 1903)
Financial District
Odd Fellows Cemetery
View north to men grading Odd Fellows Cemetery. CWA (Civilian Works Administration) workers moving earth while leveling former Odd Fellows Cemetery for Rossi Playground. Columbarium in center distance. Roosevelt Junior High (now Middle) School at far left.
Richmond
Irish Hill
Elevated view north over construction of PG&E Gas Holder / Gasometer. Corner of Illinois and 20th Streets at upper left.
Central Waterfront
San Francisco Call
View of type setting room, 16 men working, creating newspaper page layouts with lead type in wooden frames on rolling carts.
South of Market
Fillmore near Green.
Elevated view east across Fillmore to Market Street Railway Co. (MSRy) Counterbalance trolley car #653 accident on Fillmore Street between Green and Union.
Union Street
Mission & 4th
View northeast from Mission Street at 4th to wrecked Market St. Railway (MSRy) 10-Line streetcar #912 after accident.
South of Market
Harrison near Vassar Place
View east on Harrison to excavation of portion of Rincon Hill that obstructed the street right of way. A. Fleishhacker and Co. "The Paper Box House" at southeast corner of 2nd and Harrison. At right, 400 2nd St., commercial building with water tank on roof, built 1917. Still stands 2021, though facade has been modernized. [Rincon Hill Job]
South of Market
Market near Geary
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north from Market St. to remains of the Humboldt Savings Bank office at 626 Market. The bank refurbished that small building and reopened before moving to a large skyscraper to the west, near 4th Street. Horse and Wagon, workers on Oakland Traction Company tower truck work on overhead streetcar wires. Sign for Lacey Saloon to right of bank entrance. East wall of Chronicle Building at left.
Downtown / Union Square
Liberty Tower
View east from Geary and Kearny toward World War I Liberty Loan display with Liberty Bell replica on top and clock faces indicating number of millions raised in Liberty Loan campaign encasing Lotta's Fountain. Palace Hotel (with Western Pacific Railroad Co. in corner retail location, Monadnock Building with electric sign for Oakland Tribune and Northern Pacific Railway. Workers working on marquee on Flannery Building at right. Newsboys sell to people waiting for streetcars on Market. Spots on image. [1168]
Downtown / Union Square
St. Luke's Hospital
Valencia near Cesar Chavez (then Army Street) Nursing Staff Photo at St. Luke's Hospital
Bernal Heights
McAllister near Van Ness
Fred C. Gerdes Storage Co (456 McAllister), S.Hersko & Co (460-462 McAllister)
Civic Center
Building of new US Mint
View south from Buchanan & Hermann Sts. Dolores St. and Mission Dolores church at left, Dolores Heights beyond.
Mint Hill