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2nd & Mission Apr 1906

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest on Second toward Mission, fire burning at 2nd & Mission, Thumler and Rutherford bookbinders, 609 Mission, southwest corner of 2nd & Mission, Steinberger & Kalisher kid gloves, (hand colored). At right is the J.W. Bourdette Building, 90 2nd Street, which was built in 1904-1905 (architects Bliss & Faville) and survived the 1906 catastrophe. It still stands in 2026 as SF Landmark No. 271. [The Fire on Sansome St. (Sic)]
Pillsbury Picture Co. (Zelinsky Collection / Courtesy of Dan Zelinsky)

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