Butchertown ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Tilting building near Butchertown. Four women pose under precarious house. (Bear Photo 20)
1906 Earthquake
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Dore near Bryant
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south on Dore near Bryant Street. Tilted houses and cracked ground from 1906 earthquake.
Showplace Square
Washington & Mason
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest over Washington and Mason Cable Car powerhouse ruins toward Vallejo and Broadway, House of the Flag and Russian Hill homes that survived fire.
Nob Hill
California & Kearny
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [California Street East from Kearny] View east from center of California to men walking among earthquake ruins with much debris still in street. On left, ruins of San Francisco Savings Union, German Savings and Loan Society, Parrott Building, or Parrott Block (1852, Architect Stephen Williams). Kohl Building in background left. On right, Safe Deposit Building (before demolition of upper stories), Merchants Exchange with Mutual Insurance Co. of New York Building in distance.
Chinatown
Haight near Octavia
View east towards Market Street of great fire following 1906 earthquake. Wagon, people watching, Burke's Saloon.
Lower Haight
Palace Hotel On Fire
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest across Market to New Montgomery intersection. Fire at the Palace Hotel, smoke pouring down street beside Grand Hotel at left. Same original image as postcard at wnp70.1233.
Financial District
Van Ness near Green
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north down Van Ness near Green or Union. Houses burning, men running, Marin headlands in background. Man sits among charred ruins watching a block be consumed by fire after the 1906 earthquake.
Polk Gulch
View from Alta Plaza
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast across the Western Addition of the fire after the 1906 earthquake. Washington St. at left, Cooper Medical College, which later became Stanford University Department of Medicine and Pacific Medical Center and Temple Sherith Israel at right.
Pacific Heights
Larkin near Golden Gate
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast across Larkin to ruins of City Hall, with fire approaching after 1906 earthquake. Hotel Argyle, Conklin Bros. Storage Warehouse.
Civic Center
Howard near 4th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest across Howard to Ocean Shore Railway cars and horses moving rubble after the 1906 earthquake on temporary tracks. In background, from left, Fairmont Hotel, Whittell Building under construction, Shreve Building, ruins of Jessie Street Powerhouse and smokestack, steel structure of Kamm Building during reconstruction, Call Building, Chronicle Building Annex, west side of Aronson Building.
South of Market
Earthquake ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Ruins in Chinatown S.F.] Men posing and smiling. Telegraph Hill in background.
Nob Hill
Earthquake Refugees
1906 Earthquake and Fire, likely Camp Number 5 at Big Rec.[Refugee Camps in Golden Gate Park San Francisco]
Golden Gate Park
Downtown ruins 1906
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Looking east from approx. Van Ness and Ellis Sts. [View from Van Ness Ave] Ruins and rubble. Whittell Building, Call Building and Flood Building in distance.
Tenderloin
O'Farrell near Grant
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on O'Farrell to ruins and rubble in street after 1906 earthquake and fire. Monadnock Building, Hearst Examiner Building, Call Building, Call Building Annex, Kamm Building, Bancroft History Building across Market. Mutual Savings Bank Building at far left, Phelan Building at far right.
Downtown / Union Square
Golden Gate & Octavia
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south to intersection and to temporary toilets set up after earthquake in Jefferson Square. "Pioneer Automobile Co.", selling Oldsmobile and Winton cars at right was at SW corner of Golden Gate & Octavia Streets.
Cathedral Hill
Market & Battery
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest to information kiosk set up in front of the Donahue Monument after 1906 earthquake and fire, with woman selling buttermilk for 5 cents a glass and signs promoting buttermilk for health and longevity. Merchants Exchange in background.
Financial District
Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view east of the fire after the earthquake from St. Francis Hotel. Geary and Stockton intersection at bottom center. [The Burning of San Francisco]. Names of streets and some buildings written in margins.
Downtown / Union Square
Call Building
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Call Building on fire. View from Kearny near Geary.
Downtown / Union Square
Hayes Street
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [A view from Hayes St. S.F.] Earthquake rubble and ruins
Ferry Building
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view west from bay to Ferry Building, tower surrounded by scaffolding after earthquake. Call Building in distance left, Fairmont Hotel in distance right. [Ferry Bldg. San Francisco, Cal. & Bay]