Union Square
View southeast to Dewey Monument, City of Paris, Chronicle clock tower, top of Mutual Savings Bank and Call Buildings. Lengfeld's Pharmacy.
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Market near 3rd
Comic postcard photo montage of trains and balloons over photo of 3rd & Market; Mutual Savings Bank & Chronicle Buildings; [San Francisco in the future Market Street]
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O'Farrell & Powell
View east on O'Farrell toward Fischer's Vaudeville Theatre, Alcazar Theatre, Lunsted's Saloon. [O'Farrell St. TEH543 T.E Hecht] Call Building in distance.
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Market & Stockton
[TEH546 From James Flood Bldg., Market st. 1905 T. E. Hecht] View east on Market st on smokey/foggy day, Mutual Savings bank and Call building. Streetcars, carriages, many pedestrians.
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Powell & O'Farrell
View north on Powell to Union Square, Nob Hill. Horses, carriages, cable car. Temple Emanu-El in background. [TEH557 Powell St. Feb 6, 1905. T. E. Hecht]
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Market near 3rd
Elevated view easterly toward Market and 3rd Street. Grand Hotel, Palace Hotel, Hearst Building, Call Building, Call Building Annex. Carriages, cable car, pedestrians in street. Crowd gathered at right, probably watching Kamm Building construction. [TEH563][Market St. March 23, 1905 T. E. Hecht]
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Market near 3rd
Elevated view southwest across busy Market Street to Bancroft's History Building (with Morley's Billiards, Ayres' Business College, Butler-Schutze Co., D.C. Hager Tailor and McDermott Sandblast hanging platform), Spreckels Market, Dr. Holsman, Stanford Studio photographer, Goldstein & Co. theatrical supplies 733 Market, Montgomery Market, Sanborn Vail, Boston Dental College, Shreve & Barber guns & cutlery, Midway Theatre. In distance old 1887 Flood Building at 4th St. corner, Emporium. [TEH500 South side Market St between 3rd & 4th. Aug 1905]
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Market near 4th
Elevated view southwest across Market to California Academy of Sciences, F. W. Wright & Co., Emporium (Parrott Building). possible postcard view of south side of Market. [Emporium, Parrot (sic) Building, 1905]
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Bush & Kearny
Elevated view northwest to north side of Bush St. California Hotel and Theatre chimney fell onto fire station below at 412 Bush St. (to the right of hotel in this photo), mortally injuring Chief D.J. Sullivan on the morning of the 1906 earthquake. An electric sign above the theater entrance advertises the residency of prominent actress Margaret Anglin. St. George Alley at bottom. St. George Alley at bottom. At bottom left, Paris Dental Parlors, at right, St. George Stables, Branch and Factory of The Big Trunk Store. Same image as wnp71.0712. [No 143 St. George Alley at bottom. Same image as wnp71.0712. [No 143 California Hotel R.J. Waters, 1905]
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Call Building
View of south side of Market at 3rd, Examiner building and Call building.
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Powell & Market
View northeast across Market to Flood Building, St. Ann's Building on left.[James Flood Building, cor. Powell & Market]
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3rd & Market
Elevated view southeast over Market to huge crowd of people overflowing intersection, possibly watching someone reading a large news scroll posted on the Hearst/Examiner Building at center. Monadnock building under construction at left. Palace Hotel far left. Spreckels/Call Building at right.
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Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest across debris on Post St. toward Dewey Monument and St. Francis Hotel with north wing under construction. [8725 St. Francis hotel, the interior of which was burned out, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. Copyright 1906 by H. C. White Co.]
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Sutter near Kearny
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [8234-Opening safes from the great business buildings wrecked by earthquake, San Francisco, Cal. Copyright 1906 by Underwood & Underwood. U-91606] View east on Sutter to large group of men gathered around many safes in street in front of ruins of Nathan-Dohrmann & Co., large retail store with street clock in front.
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Stockton & O'Farrell
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"]
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O'Farrell near Grant
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on O'Farrell to ruins and rubble in street after 1906 earthquake and fire. Monadnock Building, Hearst Examiner Building, Call Building, Call Building Annex, Kamm Building, Bancroft History Building across Market. Mutual Savings Bank Building at far left, Phelan Building at far right.
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Union Square
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.
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Call Building
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Call Building on fire. View from Kearny near Geary.
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Kearny near Post
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.
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Sutter & Stockton
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins and rubble. Whittell Building
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