Contains 2840 photos
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north through ruins of Boericke & Runyon homeopathic pharmacy, 330 Post. Fairmont Hotel and J.C. Flood Mansion on Nob Hill in distance. [Fairmont Hotel - as seen through a Post Street Drug Store Window]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire. View north from Shreve Building. Telegraph Hill in distance. Ruins of Grace Church in left, Old St. Mary's Church in center distance. Tracks being put in on Sutter. (AS) [Looking up Grant Ave from Shreve & Co. Bldg.]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view southwest across Market to 3rd and Market Streets. Smoke pouring from upper stories of Call Building, other buildings on south side of Market, including Bancroft History Building, show earthquake damage. 700 Market building on right with Hale Dental Co. and projecting electric "Dentist" sign. Hearst Examiner Building on left. Fire hoses in street, Lotta's Fountain at bottom.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Buildings in flames on the south side of Market between 3rd and 4th. T.J. Walsh & Co., Montgomery Market 735 Market, Boston Dental College 739 Market
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Mrs. W.H. Crocker Camp. Relief station, Union Square. 1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast across plaza to men lined up for entry. Union-Pacific Club ruins in background on Post Street.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on Market from Powell. Flood Building at left, Call Building at right. Deserted street billowing smoke from building demolition.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View East toward Stockton Street. working men eating at long tables in Union Square [No. 109-R Emergency Feeding Union Square]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire damage. View northwest from Market St. towards Union Square, Whittell Building steel frame center left, Temple Emanu-El towers, background center.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view southeast across and down Market Street. Crowds near Powell watching Call Building burning in distance. Emporium, Academy of Science and Flood Building at 4th and Market at right. [No.3]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on Geary between Stockton & Powell [Geary street before the fire. Copyright 1906 Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 121] Union Square, Geary cable car and Whittell building under construction. Lengfeld's Pharmacy.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east from center of Geary toward Market; earthquake damage in street; Lengfeld's Pharmacy; Whittell Building under construction; Palace Hotel; Mutual Savings Bank Building. Taken before fire destroyed area.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [#6 Market & Ellis; Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal.] Earthquake ruins; view east to Call Building; refugees walking; Red Cross agent on bicycle
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [34 Union Square] Earthquake ruins; view southeast from Post & Powell intersection across square to Whittell Building and City of Paris; Dewey Monument. Butler Building at right.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north on Stockton St. Two National Guard soldiers in street, one holding a rifle, amid earthquake ruins; From left: Butler Building under construction, City of Paris and Whittell Building. In far distance, steeple of Grace Church at Stockton and California Streets. [#11 Ellis [Sic] & Market Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal.]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [16] National Guard soldiers gathered in intersection; ruins of Masonic Temple after earthquake.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [34. Palace Hotel; Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal] Earthquake ruins of Palace Hotel with windows boarded up; pedestrians and overloaded streetcar passing. View from Market and Geary
Downtown / Union Square
View looking southeast across Union Square towards Butler Building under construction at Geary and Stockton. (with a sign reading 'Newman-Levinson Dry Goods will occupy this building') Dewey Monument at left.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on Market from about 4th, Mutual Savings Bank and Call Building in distance.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View East on Geary from Union Square, Food line for workers, Whittell Building under construction, Mutual Savings Bank in distance
Downtown / Union Square
View east from center of Market near 4th. Original Phelan Building on left, Mutual Savings Bank Building center distance, Hearst Examanier and Spreckels Call Building and Annex, Kamm Building (1906), Bancroft History Building, Sanborn Vail, Swan Paints, Midway Theatre on right. Ferry Building is just visible. [152]
Downtown / Union Square