Image ID:  DP4
Image Date:   [ca. June 1906]
Image Title:   VIEW ON TOWNSEND STREET, NEAR FIFTH, LOOKING EASTERLY.
Image Caption:   Caption 1: No. 4: At the great fire of San Francisco all buildings were destroyed for a distance of more than two and a half miles north and in front of these Redwood freight sheds of the Southern Pacific Company, while these sheds remain intact. Townsend street is 82 feet 6 in. wide.

Caption 2: [San Francisco street scene after April 1906 earthquake and fire showing freight sheds across street and railroad tracks from destroyed and damaged buildings and rubble. Men and horse-drawn carriages visible in distance. Building at left reads "Simmons."]

[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.