[Illustration: On Market, Looking Towards the Ferry; Phelan Building on Left, the Call Building and Palace Hotel in Distance; First Day.] [Illustration: Murphy, Grant & Co.'s Building, Corner Bush and Sansome Streets.] [Illustration: Fire Scene in First Street, Looking from Market, First Day.] [Illustration: A View of the Fire from LaFayette Square.] [Illustration: Ferry Building. Hall of Justice. Chamber of Commerce. Mills Building. Union Trust Bank. New Chronicle. Call Building. Fairmount Hotel. U. S. Custom House. Crocker-Woolworth Bank. Mutual Savings Bank. Taken from Russian Hill: General View of the Ruins of the Wholesale, Financial and Retail Districts; Also, Entire Scope of Chinatown; the Streets from the Fairmount Hotel, at California and Mason, Are Sacramento, Clay, Washington, Jackson and Pacific.] [Illustration: Corner of Sansome and Market Streets; London, Paris & American Bank on Left; Wells, Fargo & Co. Bank on Right.] [Illustration: View from McAllister Street Looking East Along South Side of Market Street.] [Illustration: At the Junction of Stockton, O'Farrell and Market Streets; Forenoon of First Day; Destroyed That Night.] [Illustration: At Kearny and Market, Looking Into Third Street; Examiner Building on Left and Call on Right Side.] [Illustration: Receiving Messages in Portsmouth Square; Also Coroner's Temporary Interment Ground of the Unidentified Dead.] [Illustration: Dynamiting Crew of Regulars Destroying Buildings to Retard the Progress of the Flames.] [Illustration: Destruction of the Emma Spreckels Building, on the First Floor of Which Was "Zinkands."] [Illustration: On Powell Street at Market, South Side of Latter in Flames.] [Illustration: On Market, James Flood Building on Left, Academy of Sciences at Right.] [Illustration: Burning of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Night Scene.] [Illustration: Ruins of the Palace Hotel, from in Front of the Chronicle Office, Unfinished Monadnock Building at Right, Market Street.] [Illustration: Another View of the Palace Hotel; Ruins of the Grand Hotel in Foreground; Taken from the Corner of Montgomery Street.] [Illustration: Ruins of the Tower and Market Street Front of the City Hall; Statue of Liberty and the Argonauts Stands Undisturbed.] [Illustration: View of the City Hall from the Larkin Street side, with the site of the Mechanics' Institute in the immediate foreground.] [Illustration: View of the St. Francis Hotel, corner of Geary and Powell Streets, shows ruins of the John Bruner, and Cordes Furniture Co.'s Buildings at left; part of Union Square and new addition to the Hotel on right.] [Illustration: Hall of Justice, Kearny Street and Portsmouth Square showing shattered tower and gutted doors.] [Illustration: Market Street, from Eighth, looking to the Call Building, showing the Grant Building, in which were Headquarters Division of the Pacific, ruins of Odd Fellows' Building on right.]