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San Francisco and vicinity, before and after the big fire, April 18th, 19th and 20th, 1906.
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The Destruction of San Francisco / [The burned district of San Francisco. . .] [map]
Union Ferry Depot, foot of Market Street, saved from the fire / View on Market St., from ferry tower, showing trolley line in operation and dail-road [sic] [railroad] tracks being laid to remove the debris.
Palace Hotel and Lotta fountain at Market and Kearney Streets, before the fire / 156. Ruins of St. Domonics [sic.] [St. Dominics] Church, San Francisco, Cal. after the earthquake and fire, April 18-20, 1906. / 19. All that remained of the world-famed Palace Hotel, after the fire of San Francisco, Cal., April 18 - 20, 1906.
The inner court of the Palace Hotel as it was before the fire. / The Cliff House uninjured by the disaster.
The burning of Lincoln School and the Metropolitan Temple on Fifth Street. / Dying embers of Metropolitan Temple, an old land mark of San Francisco, on Fifth Street, opposite the Mint.
The Old Flood Building at Fourth and Market St. in the grip of the fire. / The lower portion of Market Street ablaze, as viewed from the Emporium.
View down Eddy Street, from Mason, showing ruins of Poodle Dog Restaurant and New Flood Building and the Emporium. / View down O'Farrel St., from Powell, showing ruins of Fisher's, Alcazar and Orpheum Theatres, Delmonico's Restaurant and Call Building.
The Fairmont Hotel, Nob Hill, as it will appear when completed. / The Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, cor. of California and Mason Sts., before the fire.
40. The Ferry Building viewed from the ruined business blocks on Mission St., after the fire [of] San Francisco, April 18 - 20, 1906. / 36. "The silent sentinal among the ruins". Marie Antoinette Apartments on Van Ness Ave., after the fire of April 18, 19, 20 - '06. San Francisco. / Dynamiting the Examiner Building, as viewed from Third and Howard Streets.
The City Hall before the disaster. Commenced in 1871; cost over $6,000,000; occupying two blocks of land. The main dome 335 feet. Twenty years in course of construction. / Ruins of the City Hall after the disaster. The result of twenty seconds of seismic action.
The Call Building on fire at the beginning of the big conflagration. [also Palace Hotel, New Monadnock Bldg., Examiner Bldg.] / Newspaper row, showing Chronicle, Palace, Examiner and Call Buildings
Union Square and St. Francis Hotel before the fire. / The fire consuming the south side of Market Street between Third and Fourth Sts./ The fire working its way out Market Street, as viewed from Grant Avenue.
The above illustration was made from a photograph taken shortly after the earthquake and in the early states of the fire which followed incidental thereto that laid in ashes nearly four-fifths of the beautiful city. The scene especially shows the very center of the closely built business section, where may be observed the towering temple of the press; the eighteen story Call Building; the fifteen story Chronicle Building and the new Shreve office structure, just occupied April first; the magnificent St. Francis Hotel, recently constructed as a cost of about two and one-half million dollars, and many other more or less prominent edifices. This portion was reached by flames Wednesday night and was totally dstroyed [sic.] before the close of the following day. [also Crocker Bldg. Palace Hotel, Chronicle Annex, Bird Cage, St. Francis Hotel.]
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Title:

San Francisco and vicinity, before and after the big fire, April 18th, 19th and 20th, 1906.

Creator/Contributor:

Rieder Cardinell Co.

Date:

1906

Subject:

Earthquakes--California--San Francisco--Pictorial works
San Francisco (Calif.)--Pictorial works
San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906--Pictorial works
Souvenirs (Keepsakes)

Note:

Illustrated t.-p.
Some of the illustrations are folded.

Physical Description:

1 v. (chiefly illus., map) incl. 47 p. of plates (2 fold.) map. 20 x 27 cm.

Local Call Number:

F869.S3.93.R35

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Contributing Institution:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

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