North Beach

Contains 675 photos

Washington Square
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Washington Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east across Columbus to 1906 earthquake refugees gathered in square, from Columbus near Filbert, before fire reached North Beach. Telegraph Hill. St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church to left of Washington Square on Stockton corner.

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Vallejo near Grant
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Vallejo near Grant

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west past St. Francis of Assisi Church to Nob and Russian Hills after 1906 fire; lots of ruins

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Telegraph Hill Ruins
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Telegraph Hill Ruins

View northwest from roof of Appraisers Building.[Up Telegraph Hill in the Wake of Earthquake and Fire--San Francisco Disaster of April 18, 1906] Duplicate of wnp24.314a.

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Washington Square
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Washington Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Washington Square Refugee Camp. Shacks for earthquake victims. Children between homes.

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Battery at Washington
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Battery at Washington

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins, Southeast corner of Battery Street and Washington after 1906 earthquake

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Montgomery & Jackson
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Montgomery & Jackson

View north on Montgomery to buildings on east side. Tour Eiffel Hotel and French restaurant (802 Montgomery) in a building built as a branch bank of Lucas, Turner & Co. in San Francisco in 1854. It exists in 2024 minus its upper story, as California Historical Landmark 453 and San Francisco Landmark 26. Old Pioneer Hall is just beyond. Italian and French businesses. [TEH484 Mont. & Jackson sts. Mar 31, 1906 T. E. Hecht]

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Jackson & Battery
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Jackson & Battery

[TEH504 N.W. cor Jackson & Battery Feb-8-1906 T. E. Hecht] View of run down sheetmetal shops, Lawson Bros. Cooperage. Dogs on streetcorner, barrels in front of dilapidated buildings.

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Powell near Sacramento
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Powell near Sacramento

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to St. Francis of Assisi church, North Beach and Telegraph Hill. After 1906 fire

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St. Francis of Assisi
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St. Francis of Assisi

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Vallejo and Columbus. Ruins of church and earthquake rubble all around, Telegraph Hill in background.

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Appraiser's Building
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Appraiser's Building

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Sansome Street between Washington and Jackson. Rubble from earthquake around

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North Beach Ruins
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North Beach Ruins

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northerly from Jackson and Mason in foreground. (Only flat street with cable car crossing.) St. Francis Assisi Church at center right

Telegraph Hill
Mason & Union
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Mason & Union

1906 Earthquake and Fire, view easterly from about Mason near Union toward Telegraph Hill. Washington Square (with trees) at center. Filbert and Union streets are notable in the background. [Towards Telegraph Hill across Washington Square]

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Washington Square
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Washington Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, People and possessions in Washington Squrare [Washington Square Camp, Copyright 1906 Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 44]

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Kearny & Pacific
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Kearny & Pacific

1906 Earthquake and Fire, view southeast across Columbus showing Sentinel Building (Columbus Tower), Hall of Justice ruins (at right), Montgomery Block (at left) earthquake damage.

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Pacific near Montgomery
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Pacific near Montgomery

1906 Earthquake and Fire, elevated view south along Montgomery Street towards ruins of downtown. Montgomery block at left center. [Ruins of the city after earthquake and fire 1906.]

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Old Hall of Justice
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Old Hall of Justice

View across Portsmouth Square toward reconstruction of the Hall of Justice on Kearny Street (now the site of the Hilton Hotel)

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Portsmouth Square
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Portsmouth Square

View southeast to Kohl Building, Asian man walking toward camera - Merchants Exchange, Hotel McDonough

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View From Telegraph Hill
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View From Telegraph Hill

View West on Greenwich toward Russian Hill and Golden Gate beyond. Fort Mason, Marin Headlands, Fort Point in distance. Smokestack in distance left is Presidio & Ferries Railroad Union Street cable car house and power house, near Leavenworth St.

Telegraph Hill
Broadway & Columbus
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Broadway & Columbus

View east on Broadway to two electric streetcars in distance. Temporary Monaco Photo Studio at left. "Monaco Foto" is on original negative, not the building. Horrigan's liquors to right of Monaco. Large brick building is County Jail.

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Pacific near Kearny
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Pacific near Kearny

Barbary Coast. View northeast across Pacific Street between Kearny & Montgomery to Hippodrome, Purcell's So Different Cafe, Old Gold, Thalia Dance Hall [Pacific St. BC-6][F810 BC-006] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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