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- Crowds gather at Market and Laguna streets to flee the Great Fire. Building at lower center right still survives as do along Laguna. Almost all others pictured here burned.
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- “Ham and Egg” fire burns at Grove and Laguna streets. View is along Grove Street. City Hall dome can be seen in the smoke cloud.
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- View from Laguna and Market streets of the Great Fire burning through the Mission District.
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- The Great Fire as seen from a ferry boat in the Bay.
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- Close-up view of refugees fleeing along Grove Street. The large clusters of refugees along the street suggest they were involved in rescuing trapped persons.
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- Fire around the Call Building at Third and Market Streets. Emporium, at Powell and Market, is at right.
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- Earthquake damage along Grant Ave. in Chinatown.
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- View of the Great Fire as seen from Chinatown.
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- Damaged warehouse in the area of Nineteenth and Folsom streets.
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- Ruined homes and pavement on Dore Street near Folsom.
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- Sunken cobblestone streat along Spear at Market Street.
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- Refugees search for souvenirs on sidewalk in front of the Stanford mansion on Powell Street at California.
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- Mission Dolores on Dolores at 16th street, and the wrecked Parish church next to it.
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- Refugees built shanties from any available materials to house themselves after the disaster. This encampment is near the Marina. The Army later provided tents for refugees.
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Photos via the Museum of the City of San Francisco
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#12 "Refugees search for souvenirs on sidewalk in front of the Stanford mansion on Powell Street at California. " Souvenirs? Really? A bunch of people in one spot?
Maybe this is where the bank used to stand?
I was hoping for some 1906 titties…
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105 YEAR OLD FILM CLIP
"You are there" for a cable car ride in San Francisco!"
This film was "lost" for many years. It was the first 35mm film ever. It was taken by camera mounted on the front of a cable car. The number of automobiles is staggering for 1906. Absolutely amazing! The clock tower at the end of Market Street at the Embarcadero wharf is still there…How many "street cleaning" people were employed to pick up after the horses? Talk about going green!
What a great historical film! Watch the scampering as Joe Public race away from autos, horses, cable cars and bicycles.
This film originally thought to be from 1905 until David Kiehn with the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum figured out exactly when it was shot. From New York, trade papers announcing the film showing to the wet streets from recent heavy rainfall & shadows indicating time of year & actual weather and conditions on historical record, even when the cars were registered (he even knows who owned them and when the plates were issued!) It was filmed only four days before the Great California Earthquake of April 18, 1906 and shipped by train to NY for processing. Amazing, but true!
It was shot 4 days before the earthquake.
This post reminds me of the game…
Lost pictures huh? Hmm… I've seen these pictures before.
Yeah and too bad it didn't break off and fall in the sea back then! The world would be a better place today, LOL!
nfs….SF and its politics has ruined this state for decades…and SF itself is a cesspool…time to hit the reset button…
and you think YOU had a bad day.
Fack it..
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