Image ID:  DP6
Image Date:   [ca. June 1906]
Image Title:   DOLORES STREET, NEAR SIXTEENTH, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Image Caption:   Caption 1: No. 6: All the structures opposite and east of the buildings shown in this picture, for many blocks, were destroyed by the fire of April 18th, 1906, which was stopped opposite these Redwood fronts on Dolores street, which is 100 feet wide. The last building on the left, with white front and with a cross at the peak of the rook is the Old Mission Church and is more than 130 years old.

Caption 2: [San Francisco street scene after April 1906 earthquake and fire showing residential buildings and church with rubble and debris in foreground. A boy is in right foreground, and the head of a horse is in left foreground.]

[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.