Open SF History Photos

Larkin near Golden Gate
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Larkin near Golden Gate

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Larkin south from Golden Gate. City Hall in ruins. Fire approaching. Conklin Bros. Storage Warehouse and Hotel Argyle and Grill on left. French Laundry on right. Refugees packing wagon to escape.

Civic Center
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 dome, City of Paris, and Butler Building on far right under construction.

Downtown / Union Square
7th & Stevenson
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7th & Stevenson

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south on 7th Street. U.S. main Post Office and Courthouse on left. Spectators watching buildings on south side of Mission burn. Grand Southern Hotel on southeast corner. Market and barber shops on right.

South of Market
Hermann & Buchanan
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Hermann & Buchanan

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Beginning of the Great San Francisco Fire... Photo by Moller] View east of different fires before they combined. St. Ignatius Church and City Hall in distance. Protestant Orphanage grounds in foreground.

Mint Hill
Pacific Heights
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Pacific Heights

View east from above Broadway and Scott. Fillmore counterbalance car in distance. Residence of William F. Herrin, 2530 Broadway at Scott, designed by Julius E. Krafft. Taken from present Normandie Terrace

Pacific Heights
Vallejo near Sansome
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Vallejo near Sansome

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Burning of San Francisco Apr. 18, '06. No. 61 Telegraph Hill] View from Telegraph Hill south at fire downtown after earthquake. Crowd of people on bluff watching, Appraisers Building on Sansome at left, Montgomery Block at center, Hall of Justice on Kearny at right.

North Beach
Valencia near 18th
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Valencia near 18th

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south. Man looking in hole. Cable car tracks. [Sinking of Valencia St. near 18th Street]

Mission Dolores
Stanyan near Beulah
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Stanyan near Beulah

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Sinking of Stanyan str near Golden Gate Park. J.B. Moller Photo] Sink hole in street and damaged Park Emergency Hospital. Refugee tent in park. Mount Sutro in distance.

Cole Valley
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Bread line Golden Gate Park, JB Moller Photo] Breadline on Main Drive. McLaren Lodge visible.

Golden Gate Park
Grove & Laguna
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Grove & Laguna

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view east down Grove St. Ham and Eggs Fire approaching. Fire at Octavia intersection. Busch & Nelson Carriage Factory 525 Grove, at right. Image cropped from wnp37.02221. [Copyright 1906 by A. Blumberg.]

Hayes Valley
View from Hayes Valley
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View from Hayes Valley

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [The dawn of April 18th, 1906 copyright Dana & Towers.] Earthquake & Fire, view east from Hayes Valley. Call Building at left, City Hall at right

Cathedral Hill
Presidio Refugee Camp
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Presidio Refugee Camp

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Tennessee Hollow looking south toward Pacific Heights. Refugees chopping wood. Notation on photo 'Home' with arrow to tent.

Presidio
Memorial Museum
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Memorial Museum

Golden Gate Park. View north past east end of Music Concourse to Memorial Museum. Originally constructed as the Fine Arts Building for 1894 Midwinter Fair, it was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. Apple Cider Press statue, Dore Vase, Sphinxes. Portion of U.S. Grant monument at far right.

Golden Gate Park
Waller near Buchanan
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Waller near Buchanan

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Cooking in Waller Street near Buchanan St. San Francisco, Cal '06] View west toward Buena Vista Park. Street kitchens.

Mint Hill
Mission Dolores
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Mission Dolores

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest across Dolores St. to cemetery, old Mission and Gothic Revival Church, showing earthquake damage.

Mission Dolores
Sutro Heights
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Sutro Heights

[No. 28, Sutro Heights ... 1886. Old Grove.] View of perimeter drive with Old Grove at right. View to east.

Sutro
View SE from Nob Hill
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View SE from Nob Hill

Elevated view east to California Hotel and Theatre, Mills Building at left down Bush Street. On horizon, Marine Hospital, Selby Shot Tower, Masonic Temple, Crocker Building, Chronicle Building.

Nob Hill
Mission Dolores
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Mission Dolores

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west from 16th near Dolores, Mission and Gothic Revival Church showing earthquake damage, church in process of being demolished.

Mission Dolores
View West on Commercial
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View West on Commercial

1906 Earthquake and Fire, From approximately Montgomery Street. extensive earthquake damage, street piled with bricks

Financial District
View East on Commercial
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View East on Commercial

1906 Earthquake and Fire, From approximately Montgomery Street. Extensive earthquake damage, street piled with bricks, Ferry Building shows scaffolding

Chinatown