Contains 1472 photos
[No 165 San Francisco rising from Ruins April 18 1907] View southeast to ruins of Alban Towne Mansion and Portals of the Past portico, later moved to Golden Gate Park. California St cable car tracks in street. Chronicle Annex, Shreve Building, Mutual Savings Bank, Temple Emanu-el with shorter reconstructed towers, Call Building, Whittell building, Humboldt Savings Bank Building, Butler Building. Flood Building, St. Francis Hotel annex under construction.
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[U01217 Washington & Mason Power House. 3-22-07] Mason Street line cable cars #528 and #516 running. Building under reconstruction. Russian Hill in background.
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Reconstruction View over earthquake and fire ruins towards Telegraph Hill. Wetmore Street in foreground. Building at center stands at Wetmore and Clay.
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View east to cable car approaching after crossing Stockton St. Ferry Building, Old St. Mary's Church, Sing Fat Co., Kohl Building, Merchants Exchange Building, bay, Yerba Buena Island in background [34]
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1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northeast from near California and Taylor. Post-earthquake and fire view of ruined A.N. Towne Mansion, unrestored Flood Mansion, refurbished Fairmont Hotel. Columned entryway at left moved to Lloyd Lake in Golden Gate Park in 1909 and named Portals of the Past. In distance at right is the San Francisco Institute of Art (Formerly the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art) building, opened in 1907, and later replaced by the Mark Hopkins Hotel.
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View of city under reconstruction. Montgomery Block and Assessors buildings, Bank of Italy, Sing Chong Co., Sing Fat building, Old St. Mary's church, Ferry Building, Kohl Building Merchants Exchange building in background. Two California street Cable Cars. Yerba Buena Island and East Bay Hills.
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Quake ruins, Flood Mansion, Fairmont Hotel. Man with badge and dog. Same image as wnp37.01522. [Flood Mansion, April 8, '07] [G810 EF-120] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View southeast to earthquake ruins. Nob Hill, Flood Mansion, Fairmont Hotel, Call Building. Superior duplicate of wnp37.01521 [G810 EF-121] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View southeast across intersection to ruins of Grace Church. Mills Building, bay in background left. Dome of Call Building background right. [G810 EF-122] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Quake ruins, Fairmont Hotel, corner of Flood Mansion fence at left. (G810 EF-127) (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View from Nob Hill southeast past earthquake ruins to reconstruction. Towne Mansion portal (later moved to Golden Gate Park), Chronicle Annex, Shreve Building, Temple Emanu-el with reconstructed shorter towers, Mutual Savings Bank building, Call building, Whittell Building, Spring Valley Water Co. Building, Butler Building on Union Square, Humboldt Bank Building. At right, Union Square building and wing of St. Francis Hotel under construction at far right. [G57 SEF-031] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Ruins of the Flood Mansion, showing west and south facades. Fairmont Hotel at right. [F45 SEF-017] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast over men excavating in bottom of large hole, Temple Emanu-El on Sutter Street in background.
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View northeast from near Powell and Washington. Telegraph Hill and North Beach from Nob Hill. Reconstruction, St. Francis Assisi Church
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View north from Jackson Street during reconstruction. Octagon house on Green street (survived the fire) in the distance.
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William H. Crocker mansion, earthquake and fire ruins at northeast corner of California and Jones. Site of Grace Cathedral.
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View West on Sacramento near Hyde, United Railroad cable repair [Sacramento St. West from Hyde 4-11-07 UO1248]
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View east from Nob Hill above Powell Street between Sacramento and Clay to Ferry Building over Chinatown. Earthquake and fire ruins exist, but much reconstruction has occurred. In left center distance, Appraisers Building, Montgomery Block, U.S. Customs House under construction. Bank of Italy Building at Montgomery and Clay. Donaldina Cameron House at Sacramento and Joice street at right. At far right, Kohl Building, Alaska Commercial Building (1907, Meyers and Ward, Architects). Posters on fence on Powell for the last week of David Warfield's engagement at the Alcazar Theatre and the Emporium's grand reopening on Market Street. Warfield's run concluded on October 10th and the Emporium, then California's largest store, reopened on October 1, 1908. (AS)
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View east toward (probable) Great White Fleet in the Bay from window at the Fairmont Hotel. In distance Ferry Building. Old St. Mary's Church, Thomas Clunie Building under construction (demolished 1969), Kohl Building, Alaska Commercial Building under construction, Merchants Exchange.
Downtown
Northeast view toward Telegraph Hill from Nob Hill, North Beach reconstructed, 1906 ruins in foreground. Ruins of St. Francis Church at center.
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