San Francisco Earthquake

This is my last set of photos from this disaster.

 Refugees filing en masse along Market Street toward Ferry Building

  

 View east down California St. from Nob Hill above 

Dupont (Grant) St. Merchants' Exchange Building, right

  

 View on Market Street

  

 Woman and children at refugee camp

  

 Woman holding bottle amid glass debris

  

 Woman sitting on edge of fault crevice

  

 Women and children refugees posing along a row of makeshift dwellings

  

 Women at flooded lot. Refugee tents in background

  

San Francisco rising from ruins, April 18, 1907. View southeast 

from Nob Hill showing reconstruction progress

San Francisco Earthquake

The disaster continues...

 Refugee camp near Protestant Orphan Asylum. Market and Buchanan Streets

  

 Refugee camp, Fort Mason

  

 Relief camp with refugee tents

  

 S.F. Red Cross and Relief, No. 3, Camp Ingleside, July 1907

  

 Street scene at foot of Market Street

  

 Street scene, Geary St. looking toward Market

  

 Telegraph Hill. From Ferry Building

  

 Temporary houses. Golden Gate Park

  

 Tilted wooden-frame houses, Howard St. between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets

  

U.S. Army Field Hospital. Picturing nurse, officers, and horse-drawn ambulance

San Francisco Earthquake

 Refugee camp at Lobos Square, April 18th, 1906

  

 Refugee camp in Golden Gate Park

  

 Refugee camp near Presidio

  

 Refugee camp, possibly Jefferson Square

  

 Refugee lines patrolled by U.S. Navy troops

  

 Refugees at makeshift camp near Market St. and Buchanan

  

 Refugees living in houses made from dry goods boxes. Near Lobos Square. April 1906

  

 Ruins of Grace Cathedral, California and Stockton Streets, Nob Hill

  

 San Francisco looking northeast from Atlas Building

  

Scene along Geary St. during street city-wide cleaning day. 

Relief tables and temporary buildings, including Hotel St. Francis

San Francisco Earthquake

 Bread line, Sixth and Mission

  

 East Street (the Embarcadero), a few weeks after the fire. 

U.S. Army men bivouacked in tents

  

 Food vending carts, wagons, streetcars, tents and rubble along Market Street

  

 Girl on swing, surrounded by rubble-filled lots, Rincon Hill

  

 Looters under guard of U.S. Army troops

  

 Man at street kitchen

  

 Man regarding subsidence of sidewalk and street, Capp Street

  

 McAllister and Market Streets

  

 Mission Relief Headquarters, Guerrero Street near 25th

  

 New Montgomery Street ruins. Rialto Bldg. at right. 

Crossley building in foreground at left

  

 Olson family in Jefferson Park

  

Refugee camp at Fort Mason

San Francisco Earthquake - The Fire

The great earthquake of 1906 did a lot of damage to San Francisco. The ensuing fire did more. Here are some amazing shots of the fire in progress.

 Arnold Genthe: The last day of the fire

  

 Burning of Call building. Lotta's Fountain

  

 Call Building on fire, Market Street

  

 Crowd at foot of Market Street watcing fire in distance. Near Sacramento Street

  

 Crowd watching fire

  

 Fire on Market Street, viewed from Nob Hill

  

 Fires burning in Wholesale and Financial districts. Looking east from Nob Hill

  

 Fleeing from the flames. Refugees filing down Market Street

  

 People viewing fire from Halliday Hill

  

 Refugee crowd during fire

  

 Refugees viewing fire toward southeast from Lafayette Square.
Photo "probably by Arnold Genthe"
  

The burning of San Francisco, April 18, 1906, view from St. Francis Hotel
 

Union Square, San Francisco fire
 

View from southeast slope of Nob Hill of fire burning, south of Market district