Image ID:   DP1
Image Date:   [ca. June 1906]
Image Title:   EAST STREET, NEAR MARKET, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Image Caption:   Caption 1: No. 1: All the structures opposite and west of these buildings shown in this picture, for a distance of more than two miles, were destroyed by the fire of April 18th, 1906, which was stopped opposite these Redwood houses on East street, which is 150 feet wide.

Caption 2: [San Francisco street scene after April 1906 earthquake and fire. Numerous people and horse-drawn carriages in foreground, buildings in background with signs reading "Ship Owners Association of the Pacific Coast," "Harbor," and "New Wellington Coal."]

[This image is from an album prepared in June of 1906 by the Redwood Car Shippers Bureau, containing 10 photographs depicting damage caused by the San Francisco earthquake and fires of April 1906, promoting the effectiveness of redwood as a fire-retardant construction material. The album was donated to the Forest History Society by the Davenport, Peters Company.]
Photographer:   [unknown]
Use Restrictions:   Permission from the Forest History Society required for any use of this image.
Repository Contact Information:   Forest History Society, Inc.; 701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701; Tel.: (919) 682-9319; Fax: (919) 682-2349.