The San Francisco Disaster Photographed

This page contains page images of the booklet The San Francisco Disaster Photographed: Fifty Glimpses of Havoc by Earthquake and Fire (© 1906 by C.S. Hammond & Co., New York). The staple-bound booklet consists of 36 unnumbered pages (front and back of 18 10" x 7.4" sheets, including covers). The covers are detached but intact in my copy, and otherwise it is in fairly good condition. I scanned the front and back covers in color and inside pages in b+w, all at 600 dpi. The cover, title page, and captions are in English, but the inside front cover presents florid introductory text in German, printed in the old German typeface Fraktur. The inside back cover contains a map of the burned area.

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Locations (partial list):

• p. 1 (front cover): Call Building (dramatically enhanced photo), Market/3rd (SW corner) [Wikipedia]
• p. 4: Native Sons monument at Market/Mason [Wikipedia]
• pp. 5, 11 bottom, 12: City Hall: Larkin/McAllister [City Hall]
• pp. 6, 7: Market/3rd (Examiner SE corner, Call SW corner)
• p. 8: Columbia Theatre: 9 Powell (Powell between Ellis/Eddy, W side) [sftheatres blog, 1895 Glover Illustrated Directory, 1905 Sanborn, 1905 Crocker Langley]
  (dramatically enhanced photo looking N from Market/Powell; not O'Farrell per caption; Columbia middle of left edge). The location suggests this must be from the Flood Building, but the right foreground chimney looks like the Baldwin Hotel (destroyed by fire in 1898). I suspect the original photo predates the earthquake.
• p. 9: Palace Hotel: Market/New Montgomery [Wikipedia]
• p. 10: Grand Rapids Furniture Company: 957-977 Market [1905 Crocker Langley]
• p. 11 top: California Hotel: Bush near Kearny
• p. 14 top: Mark Hopkins Institute: California/Mason (SE corner) [Wikipedia]
• p. 15: St. Dominick's [sic] Church: Bush/Steiner (NW corner) [1905 Crocker Langley, Wikipedia]
• p. 16 top: 18th/Valencia [Valencia St. Hotel]
• p. 17 top: Fairmount [sic] Hotel: California/Mason (NE corner) [Wikipedia]
• p. 20 top: Crocker: California/Taylor/Sacramento/Jones block
• pp. 20 bottom, 32, 33: Stanford University, Palo Alto
• p. 21: Hayward Building California/Montgomery (NE corner), Merchant's Exchange 431 California
• p. 24: Hibernia Bank: Jones/McAllister [Wikipedia]
• p. 26 bottom: St. Patrick's Church: 9th/Santa Clara, San Jose [Wikipedia]
• p. 27: Valencia St. Hotel: 718 Valencia (btw. 18th/19th) [Valencia St. Hotel]
• p. 28: St. Mary's Church: California/Dupont (now Grant; NE corner) [1905 Crocker Langley, Wikipedia]
  [not St. Mary's Cathedral, Van Ness/O'Farrell (NW corner)]
• p. 30: St. Francis Hotel: Powell/Geary (NW corner) [Wikipedia]
• p. 31: 18th/Valencia [Valencia St. Hotel]

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