Fire from Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire. Merchants Exchange at center
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Embarcadero at Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Embarcadero (then East) at Market. 1906 Earthquake and Fire, Italianate Victorian collapsing while burning, Magnolia Cafe, Naval Recruiting Office. Water pumped on structure.
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Market near Drumm
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest across Market to crowds of people visiting ruins and temporary stands to serve them. Merchants Exchange, Luning Building, Fairmont Hotel at left. C.E. Whitney & Co. Provisions.
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Front near Pine
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake Ruins, looking southeast from California toward the southeast corner of Front and Pine and ruins of Union Block / Board of Trade building. [SF Board of Trade #15 Bushnell Foto Co.]
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Market near Sutter
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake Ruins, Ground-level view west on Market, foreshortened view of Palace Hotel, Call Building, Crocker Building [View from Ferry Looking up Market St #39 Bushnell Foto Co.]
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California & Front
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake Ruins, men milling around, opened safes on the street. [View from California and Front #9 Bushnell Foto Co.]
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California & Battery
View west on California to busy street scene. Grace Church, Fairmont Hotel in distance. Kohl Building, Brown & Power stationers, Bank of California, Friedlander's Building in center distance. Cable Car #2, Presidio Avenue, California and Market Streets at lower right. [California St. looking West toward Nob Hill, just before Earthquake]
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California & Montgomery
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view north to Telegraph Hill from roof of Kohl Building [8223. Slowly clearing away the wreckage of earthquake and fire - From Kohl Building, N.]
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Ruins from Ferry Building
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view west from Ferry Building tower scaffolding over wholesale district, Nob Hill Fairmont Hotel, Appraiser's Building in distance, earthquake ruins and early reconstruction.[8280 Fairmount Hotel and Nob Hill, west from Ferry Bldg. Tower over Miles of Ruins U-91730]
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View from Ferry Building
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [8701 General view of burned area (Market St. on left) from Ferry Tower]
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Market near 1st
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins, Market near 1st ruins, looking to Ferry Building
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Sacramento & Drumm
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake and Fire, Buildings burning on west side of Drumm near Sacramento. Power and Pike Sheet Metal Works, 17 Drumm
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Market near Battery
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast across Market to Earthquake and Fire, fire burning, Byron Jackson Machine Works 411 Market in the Lachman Block on the southwest corner of Market and Fremont. Excelsior Glove Company 415 Market St. (After the Lachman building burned, the ruins became a favorite of photographers because of Samuel Lachman's stone face in the rubble - see wnp14.0445. Face is visible in rubble on street in front of building.) Photographer is standing on the Mechanic's Monument
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Merchant near Sansome
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake damage, Produce District, View southwest across Merchant to 517 Merchant National Fish Co., 519-521 Biagini & Co., Maggio Dondero & Co., earthquake devastation and dead horses. [National Fish Co. across from Henry's saloon]
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Merchant near Montgomery
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake damage, View southwest across Merchant St. to 541 Merchant St before the fire reached it [Ratto's Oyster Restaurant] earthquake devastation, dead horses. Hall of Justice on Portsmouth Square at upper right.
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Merchant near Sansome
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake damage, Produce District, View southwest across Merchant St. to 517 Merchant National Fish Co., 519-521 Biagini & Co., Maggio Dondero & Co., earthquake devastation and dead horses. [National Fish Co. across from Henry's saloon]
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Market near Battery
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east from center of Market at crowd watching approaching fire, 306 Market stationers sign at left
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Market Street at Front
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view north across Market up Front St. to sightseers on Market Street
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Market near Fremont
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast on Market to earthquake and fire rubble, toward the sculpted face of Samuel Lachman, which fell from the top of Lachman's Block, a large building at Market and Fremont Street [Ruins on Market Street Cummings photo]
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Market & Front
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest from Market and Front Streets. Owl Drug Store, Milton Bradley sign.
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