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Powell Street--you are looking straight up Powell Street. This photograph was taken at the crossing of O'Farrell and Powell Streets, after the earthquake and fire. Nob Hill is at top-left, leveled to the ground! Can you spot where Baron's Cocktail Lounge is now located, and flourishing? ...Look real hard at lower-left--there you are!

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Title: Powell Street--you are looking straight up Powell Street. This photograph was taken at the crossing of O'Farrell and Powell Streets, after the earthquake and fire. Nob Hill is at top-left, leveled to the ground! Can you spot where Baron's Cocktail Lounge is now located, and flourishing? ...Look real hard at lower-left--there you are!
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906
Publication Information: CaliforniaHistoricalSociety, North Baker Research Library, 678 Mission Street,San Francisco, CA 94105-4014; http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/collections/northbaker_research.html
Contributing Institution: California Historical Society
Collection: 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection: Selections from the California Historical Society
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Shelf location: SF -- Earthquake (1906) -- Streets -- Powell
Type: image
Format: 18 x 21 cm.
Form/Genre: Cityscapes--California--San Francisco
Photographs
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb7b69p2z2
FN-01864
chs00002524_40a.tif
Subject: Earthquakes--California--San Francisco--Photographs
Fires (damage)--Photographs
San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906--Photographs
Place: San Francisco (Calif.)
Pictorial works
A0105

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