Downtown / Union Square

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Union Trust Building
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Union Trust Building

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View East on Post toward Montgomery, Ruins of Masonic Temple, Union Trust building on northeast corner (demolished circa 1965)[?R. Bldg., New Montgomery & Market St. #?]

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Sutter & Grant
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Sutter & Grant

View East on Sutter From Grant (Dupont) toward Kearny. Busy street scene. - United Railroads [U00655]

Downtown / Union Square
Sutter & Montgomery
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Sutter & Montgomery

View west up Sutter Street from Montgomery to Kearny. On left is the Lick House, a hotel. Sutter Street Cable Car. Nathan-Dohrmann & Co. store with street clock in front at right. - United Railroads [U00656]

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Sutter & Kearny
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Sutter & Kearny

Drawing showing proposed elevated view of what Sutter Street looking west from Kearny is going to look like. Pre-earthquake buildings depicted. Victorian detail, Kearny street car going by, new electric cars. Nathan-Dohrmann & Co. store with street clock in front at far right. Temple Emanu-El in distance. - United Railroads [U00701]

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Market & Kearny
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Market & Kearny

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view north, Kearny Street at left.[5337 San Francisco Earthquake, April 18, 1906. From the Chronicle Building toward Chinatown and Telegraph Hill. Copyright 1906 by C. H. Graves.]. Ruins of Hall of Justice center background. St. Francis of Assisi Church left background.

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Post near Grant
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Post near Grant

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins. View west down Post to Whittell Building at left, First Congregational Church in distance right. Men walk down street filled with rubble. [8706 Post St., once a busy shopping district, now a scene of desolation, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. Copyright 1906 by H. C. White Co.]

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Union Square
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Union Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to ruins on Post Street [8197-Homeless among the ruins of former wealth - crude shelters in Union Square, San Francisco, Cal. Copyright 1906 by Underwood & Underwood] Old man in rocking chair, park green and tents, building ruins behind.

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Post & Kearny
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Post & Kearny

[8707 A fire engine caught and crushed by a falling wall, Post St., San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. Copyright 1906 by H. C. White Co.] View northeast. Crushed fire engine. Building rubble, damaged buildings. Right frame of stereoview.

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Market near Powell
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Market near Powell

1906 Earthquake and Fire, hand colored postcard, view east on Market from Powell, Call Building in background and Emporium at right. [The lower portion of Market Street ablaze during the progress of the fire.]

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Union Square
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Union Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view northeast across Union Square, temporary St. Francis Hotel Annex (Little St. Francis) in foreground, built in Union Square following the fire. Dewey Monument and downtown ruins in the background. [Hotel St. Francis Annex]

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Market near Grant
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Market near Grant

1906 Earthquake and Fire, “The fire working its way out Market St. as viewed from Grant Ave” View southwest across Market. Bancroft History Building at left.

Downtown / Union Square
Montgomery & Market
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Montgomery & Market

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest across Market St from Montgomery St, Call building burning, Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building, Hearst Building.

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Montgomery & Market
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Montgomery & Market

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest across Market St from Montgomery St, Call building burning, Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building, Hearst Building [Call Building, Copyright 1906 by S.F. Ruins Pub. Co.]

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Market near 3rd
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Market near 3rd

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Call Building burning. [1108 The burning Call Building… a magnificent spectacle of the disaster...] View southwest across Market St. Examiner Building at left. Lotta's Fountain at bottom. Colorized postcard.

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3rd & Market
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3rd & Market

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south across Market to 3rd Street and seven-story Winchester Hotel burning at southwest corner of 3rd and Stevenson Street, next to H. Schoene photograph gallery. Aronson Building beyond. Hearst (Examiner) Building on left. Call Building on right. [By Stewart & Rogers, Bear Photo S.F. 43] Similar to wnp37.10057. [No 232 -The fire on Third Street. 9 a.m., April 18, 1906]

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Union Square
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Union Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to refugees at base of the Dewey Monument as fire approaches. Lengfeld's Pharmacy, Whittell Building under construction, Marchands Building on corner of Geary and Stockton. Call Building, City of Paris, and Butler Building on far right under construction. Similar to wnp27.2516. [165 -Scene on Union Square on the morning of April 18, 1906]

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Union Square
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Union Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to refugees at base of the Dewey Monument as fire approaches. Lengfeld's Pharmacy, Whittell Building under construction, Marchands Building on corner of Geary and Stockton. Call Building, City of Paris, and Butler Building on far right under construction. Similar to wnp27.2516, dupe of wnp135.00067. [165 -Scene on Union Square on the morning of April 18, 1906]

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Post near Stockton
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Post near Stockton

1906 Earthquake and Fire, St. Francis Hotel in ruins after fire and earthquake with Union Square and Dewey Monument in foreground. View west. [Looking up Post Street showing St. Francis Hotel.] Colorized postcard.

Downtown / Union Square
Market near Stockton
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Market near Stockton

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [235. The Emporium…after the fire.] View looking south across Market. Colorized postcard.

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Union Square
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Union Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Union Square looking north from Geary Street with the Dewey Monument at the center. Pacific Union Club, Temple Emanu-El in the distance. [Dewey Monument after Earthquake and Fire.]

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