Market & 4th
Humboldt Savings Bank, 785 Market St. under construction. Open pit at corner. Hagedorn & Pilster, Regal Shoes, Raggett's saloon. Streetcars [B-25] [G810 B-025] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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3rd & Market
View southeast to future site of Examiner Building on right. Monadnock building, Old Palace Hotel demolished, Metropolis Bank Building under construction, at left. automobiles, horsedrawn carriages. Duplicate of wnp37.01537. [G810 NE-006] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Grant near Geary
View west of rebuilding after 1906 earthquake. City of Paris building on left. St. Francis Hotel in center distance with north wing under construction, Whittell Building on right. Geary Street cablecar #24 passing. Ad on construction shed for Whitney Building. [4226 Geary near Union Square Jan 1907] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
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Geary near Stockton
View west of rebuilding after 1906 earthquake. St. Francis Hotel in center distance with north wing under construction. Union Square with Little St. Francis in the park (Temporary St. Francis Hotel), Whittel Building at right. Geary Street cablecar #24 waiting. Ad on construction shed for Whitney Building, 117 Geary. [4227 Geary St at Stockton St Jan 1907] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
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Geary near Grant
View southwest toward Flood Building in distance. Gassaway & Wood liquors and Rathjen Bros on first block of Stockton Street. Construction and foundation work on building site during rebuilding following 1906 earthquake. [4242 Construction work Jan 1907] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
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View from Maiden Lane
Elevated view northeast to intersection of Post and Grant showing considerable reconstruction after 1906 earthquake and fire. Shreve Building (originally opened 1905, William Curlett architect) on left. In center distance, Merchants Exchange Building is still under repair. At right, work is underway on the ruins of the W.&J. Sloane Building, which had housed the home furnishings store of that name since it opened in 1900 (Tharp & Holmes architects). Following the 1906 catastrophe, it was demolished to its steel frame and rebuilt as the Jewelers Building (150 Post, Lewis Hobart architect, opened 1908 and remains standing in 2021) (AS)[4267 Shreve Building Jan 1907] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
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Geary near Kearny
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)
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Grant near Maiden Lane
View east of reconstruction after 1906 earthquake. Chronicle building annex at center on Kearny Street. Steel frames of several buildings have gone up, including Oscar Luning Building 45-47 Kearny, at center (1907, Nathaniel Blaisdell, Architect). [4306 Chronicle Building vicinity April 1907] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
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Geary & Kearny
Elevated view west on Geary with St. Francis Hotel under repair in far distance. Reconstruction after 1906 earthquake. Whittell Building with large sign: 'This building constructed by J. R. Bowles.' Line of parked buggies and horses. Speck & Co. Street work. [4307 Geary Street from Market April 1907] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
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Sutter & Grant
View east on Sutter to early automobile and horsedrawn buggy driving west. Reconstruction after 1906 earthquake. [4312 From Sutter and Grant east along Grant A (sic)] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
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Market & Stockton
Elevated view east on Market from Ellis and Stockton Streets, showing downtown reconstruction projects after 1906 Earthquake. Phelan Building under construction at left, Mutual Savings Bank and Chronicle annex beyond. Call Building, Call Building Annex, Kamm Building in the background at center, Monadnock Building, Metropolis Trust & Savings Bank Building (under construction, completed early 1908) beyond. Royal Shoes, Old Crow Saloon (T.M. Ferguson Co.), large signs for 'Future Home of Kragens, The Workingman's Store" and Sorensen Co. Jewelers & Opticians. [Market St.]
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Downtown ruins 1906
Looking NW towards Nob Hill from near Post and Montgomery. Fairmont Hotel in background, Grace Church at right.
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Market near Ellis
Elevated view southeast (possibly from Flood Building) to Mutual Savings Bank Building, Chronicle Building, Call Building, streetcars, Humboldt Savings Bank, Pacific Building under construction. [In the year 'one' of greater San Francisco. Market St one year 'after.' Pacific Bldg. S.F. Cal. Apr. 18 07]
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Market near Kearny
View west across Market to Magee Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Flannery Building (with C.M. Wooster Co. Country Lands); Lotta's Fountain; Castro line streetcar; reconstruction after earthquake. (Duplicate of wnp71.0098.)
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3rd & Market
View southeast across Market to Monadnock Building; Metropolis Bank Building under construction on left at New Montgomery; cars, streetcars, horses
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Union Square
[Union Square showing St. Francis Annex and Office Bldgs. In course of construction, San Francisco, Cal.] Whittell Building, Dewey monument, Call Building, City of Paris building.
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4th & Market
Elevated view to southwest of Pacific building under construction [Pacific Building 6.26.07]
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Monadnock Building
Viewed from the intersection at 3rd and Market. Both the Hearst Examiner and Palace Hotel have been demolished, new ones not yet built.
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Union Square
View southeast from base of Dewey Monument; Whittell Building under construction; Call Building; City of Paris Building; Nathan-Dohrmann Department Store under reconstruction; crop of panorama (see wnp37.02953)
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Union Square
View SE from base of Dewey Monument; Whittell Building; Call Building; City of Paris Building; Nathan-Dohrmann Department Store under reconstruction; crop of panorama (see wnp37.02953)
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