Exploded Gas Tanks, U.S. Mint, Emporium And Spreckels Building (1906)

Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division

This film is a spectacular pan of the downtown area of San Francisco as seen from south of Market Street. The location among low ruins was ideal to view the tall ruined buildings along and north of Market Street. Since the facade of St. Patrick's Church is not visible in the pan, the film is probably later than May 9, the date the facade was demolished. The camera, placed on the east side of 4th Street near Natoma Street, one and two-thirds blocks south of Market Street, pans a full 240 degrees, from southwest to southeast.

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• Exploded
• Gas
• Tanks
• U.S.
• Mint
• Emporium
• And
• Spreckels
• Building
• (1906)
• San
• Francisco
• earthquake
• fire