1906 Earthquake

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Unknown Location

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake refugee shack. Man and woman, with parrot and dog. Earthquake ruins in background.

View of Russian Hill
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View of Russian Hill

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake damage, View from Jackson and Van Ness looking north-north east.

Polk Gulch
Lobos Square
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Lobos Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake refugee tents and barracks. Taken from gasometer at gas works on Bay Street. Pacific Heights in background. Present Moscone Field

Marina
Sacramento near Van Ness
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Sacramento near Van Ness

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to Nob Hill. Earthquake ruins. Clay Street Tank (Clay and Jones) in background left

Polk Gulch
View of Russian Hill
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View of Russian Hill

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake damage, View from Jackson and Van Ness looking north-north east. (part of a panorama with wnp37.01291)

Russian Hill
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Unknown Location

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake refugees? People & children on hilltop.

Market & Jones
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Market & Jones

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Hibernia Bank Building. Earthquake refugees.

Tenderloin
6th & Howard
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6th & Howard

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Couple smiling. Woman holding forks. Souvenir hunters in Earthquake ruins. Mint and Call Building in background.

South of Market
Market near Battery
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Market near Battery

1906 Earthquake and Fire, somewhere on Market Street. [Gussie, Tom, Mayme, Joe, Gladys, George]. People drinking out of bottles. Earthquake ruins in background. Postal Telegraph tent in background. (3 couples, Frances Augusta 'Gussie' Luce, Thomas F. Rogers, Mayme, Joe, Gladys VanDyke, George W. Luce) (Postal Telegraph Company only had one location in the city immediately after the 1906 earthquake: 534 Market St.)

Financial District
U.S. Sub Treasury
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U.S. Sub Treasury

1906 Earthquake and Fire, North side of Commercial near Montgomery after 1906 earthquake. [sign says Sub Treasury Guard and a list of names]. Soldiers posing with rifles.

Chinatown
Embarcadero & Market
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Embarcadero & Market

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Looking west. Earthquake ruins and people milling about.

Financial District
Portsmouth Square
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Portsmouth Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west to scene at refugee camp w/deputies wearing badges. Earthquake ruins in background. Police Camp [19]

Chinatown
Market & 2nd
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Market & 2nd

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Couple walking up street. Call Building in distance.

Financial District
Market & 6th
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Market & 6th

1906 Earthquake and Fire, view south on 6th Street at approaching fire. Soldier with rifle standing in street. Van Vroom Dental Parlor, Chicago Dental Parlor at right. Original Hewes Building, Hale Bros. Department Store annex at left.[7]

South of Market
View of Telegraph Hill
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View of Telegraph Hill

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins. St Francis of Assisi Church. From California & Powell roughly.

Nob Hill
City Hall Ruins
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City Hall Ruins

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Looking northeast from Larkin near Market to City Hall, Hall of Records [Ruins of City Hall Lipman Photo]

Civic Center
City Hall Ruins
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City Hall Ruins

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [City Hall From Van Ness Avenue Lipman Photo] View east down Fulton St.

Civic Center
Mason & Geary
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Mason & Geary

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Fairmont Hotel in background, First Congregational Church, and Native Sons of the Golden West Building. [Mason Str North From Geary Lipman Photo] (Inferior cropped copy of wnp70.10067)

Lower Nob Hill
Geary & Fillmore
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Geary & Fillmore

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Temple Beth Israel ruins. (Cropped inferior copy of wnp70.10062)

Western Addition
View from 21st & Guerrero
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View from 21st & Guerrero

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Post earthquake view north from about 21st Street near Guerrero. (estimated) City Hall and Fairmont in center

Dolores Heights