Market & Mason
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east. Earthquake Damage. Flood Building in background, Admission Day/Native Sons Monument on left, Call Building, Emporium. duplicate of wnp4.1569
Downtown1906 Earthquake
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O'Farrell near Stockton
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on O'Farrell, people watching approaching fire on Market. Call Building, Call Building Annex, Kamm Building and Bancroft History Building on Market in distance, Phelan Building on right. Facade on building at left, Shiels apartment building containing Oberon Music Hall 38 O'Farrell, has collapsed into the street. Belvedere Music Hall just beyond.
Downtown / Union Square
California near Sansome
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view west up California Street. Fairmont Hotel, Old St. Mary's Cathedral Grace Church in distance. Kohl Building, Parrott Block. Bank of California under construction at Sansome corner at right. Fireman's Fund Building across Sansome at left reduced to 2 stories and partially restored. At far left, Mutual Life Insurance Building. In distance left, Merchants Exchange Building. Beyond Bank of California construction at right, London & San Francisco Bank Building with flag on roof, showing earthquake damage to exterior, but occupied by Otis, Mc Allister & Co. coffee importers starting in late June, 1906. Just beyond, 3 story building with light granite facade is Mercantile Trust Co. building (Albert Pissis, Architect, 1903)
Financial District
Fire from Lafayette Park
1906 fire, viewed from Lafayette Square park
Pacific Heights
Unknown Location
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Post-quake rubble, men working, streetcar, possibly East Bay?
10th near Market
1906 earthquake and fire damage, Studebaker Wagons Carriages Harness. Building on left a post-fire replacement office and showroom built just west of their earlier destroyed building on 10th and Market. At right, ruins of Firehouse No. 19, Hook and Ladder Co. No. 3. Posters and bills for Easton Auction in Burlingame and Regensburg's Cigars at Chas. M. Mattheas, 2579 Washington; Schoenholz & Elsbach dry goods 2011 Fillmore. [10th & Market St. June 2, '06.]
South of Market
Market near Geary
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north from Market St. to remains of the Humboldt Savings Bank office at 626 Market. The bank refurbished that small building and reopened before moving to a large skyscraper to the west, near 4th Street. Horse and Wagon, workers on Oakland Traction Company tower truck work on overhead streetcar wires. Sign for Lacey Saloon to right of bank entrance. East wall of Chronicle Building at left.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Man standing amid brick rubble holding small pieces of china?, view south toward Bernal Heights and Diamond Heights in the distance. Broken chimney of Valencia Street Power House on right.
Powell near Bush
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Woman standing amidst earthquake rubble. View southeast to Temple Emanu-El, Call Building, Whittell Building in background.
Nob Hill
Fell near Franklin
1906 Earthquake: Woman standing on the steps of destroyed Church of the Nativity Slavonian Catholic Church. City Hall dome in background, St Ignatius Church and College behind.
Civic Center
Golden Gate near Jones
Man standing at entrance of damaged St. Boniface Church, Golden Gate between Jones and Leavenworth
Tenderloin
California & Grant
1906 Earthquake and Fire, People standing in front of damaged Old St. Mary's Church
Chinatown
California near Grant
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east down California after the earthquake and fire, Old St Mary's Church at far left, Kohl Building, Merchants Exchange Building
Chinatown
Memorial Museum
View west toward collapsed east wall of the Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park, after 1906 earthquake. 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. The building was repaired and later demolished in 1929.
Golden Gate Park
Hall of Justice
View northeast across Kearny to Hall of Justice, after 1906 earthquake.
Chinatown
Powell near O'Farrell
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Looking south from center of Powell towards Flood Building after earthquake and fire, chimneys of U.S. Mint in background right.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Mason
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Market, Mason & Turk St. View northeast across Market Admission Day (Native Sons) Monument. Hotel Hamilton, Butler Building, Flood Building in background. Temporary wooden shack office of C.A. Blume, General Contractor-Rigger. Refreshment stand to right of Monument.
Tenderloin
Chestnut & Leavenworth
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast toward Bay, burned rubble in foreground.
Russian Hill
Golden Gate Park
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Refugee Camp, Army Field Hospital No. 1 in Golden Gate Park in the aftermath of the 1906 Earthquake & Fire
Golden Gate Park
Jefferson Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Refugee camp. Displaced residents settle in.
Cathedral Hill