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• The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906. Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission (2 volumes, 1908-10), by California State Earthquake Investigation Commission (HTML at cdlib.org)
• How the Army Worked to Save San Francisco (1906), by Henry Anderson Lafler (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco on Insurance Settlements Incident to the San Francisco fire (1906), by San Francisco Chamber of Commerce (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Two Days in San Francisco, 1906, by Laurence Monroe Klauber (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The California Earthquake of 1906, ed. by David Starr Jordan (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The Earthquake of April 18, 1906, and the Great Fire in San Francisco on That and Succeeding Days: Personal Experiences, Inauguration of Red Cross and General Relief Work, by William W. Morrow (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The Spirit of 1906, by George W. Brooks (Gutenberg text)
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1906), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1907), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)

• The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire, ed. by Charles Morris (Gutenberg text)

• The City That Has Fallen (San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1933), by William Marion Reedy (HTML at cdlib.org)
• San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April, 1906: Personal Recollections, by James B. Stetson
  • HTML at cdlib.org
  • Gutenberg text
• A Father's Story of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco, April 18, 19, 20, 1906, by William F. Nichols (HTML at cdlib.org)

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• How the Army Worked to Save San Francisco (1906), by Henry Anderson Lafler (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The California Earthquake of 1906, ed. by David Starr Jordan (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Personal Experiences of the San Francisco Earthquake of April, 1906, by Melissa Stewart McKee Carnahan (page images at cdlib.org)
• The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire, ed. by Charles Morris (Gutenberg text)
• The Spirit of 1906, by George W. Brooks (Gutenberg text)
• Temporary Directory of San Francisco Business and Professional Men, Together with Directory of Municipal and State Officers, and Other Useful Information Gathered from Latest Announcements (1906) (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The Refugees' Cook Book (San Francisco, 1906), by One of Them (page images at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco on Insurance Settlements Incident to the San Francisco fire (1906), by San Francisco Chamber of Commerce (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1906), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1907), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906. Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission (2 volumes, 1908-10), by California State Earthquake Investigation Commission (HTML at cdlib.org)

• A Father's Story of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco, April 18, 19, 20, 1906, by William F. Nichols (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The City That Has Fallen (San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1933), by William Marion Reedy (HTML at cdlib.org)
• San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April, 1906: Personal Recollections, by James B. Stetson
  • HTML at cdlib.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Two Days in San Francisco, 1906, by Laurence Monroe Klauber (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The Earthquake of April 18, 1906, and the Great Fire in San Francisco on That and Succeeding Days: Personal Experiences, Inauguration of Red Cross and General Relief Work, by William W. Morrow (HTML at cdlib.org)

• Vignettes of San Francisco, by Almira Bailey (Gutenberg text)
• A Backward Glance at Eighty, by Charles A. Murdock (HTML at LOC)
• Seven Years' Street Preaching in San Francisco, California, by William Taylor
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at MOA
• The Adventures of a Forty-Niner, by Daniel Knower (HTML at LOC)
• Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam, by Hubert Howe Bancroft (Gutenberg text)

• No Place to Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), by Caroline Barnes Crosby, ed. by Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and S. George Ellsworth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Reminiscences and Incidents of "The Early Days" of San Francisco, by John Henry Brown (HTML at LOC)
• The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire, ed. by Charles Morris (Gutenberg text)

• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1906), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1907), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)

• A Pioneer Pastorate and Times, by Albert Williams (HTML at LOC)

• Temporary Directory of San Francisco Business and Professional Men, Together with Directory of Municipal and State Officers, and Other Useful Information Gathered from Latest Announcements (1906) (HTML at cdlib.org)

• The City That Was: A Requiem of Old San Francisco (1906), by Will Irwin (Gutenberg text)
• Historical Souvenir of San Francisco, Cal., With Views of Prominent Buildings, the Bay, Islands, etc. (San Francisco: C. P. Heininger, ca. 1887) (page images at cprr.org)
• Bohemian San Francisco, Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes: The Elegant Art of Dining (1914), by Clarence E. Edwords (Gutenberg text)
• A Forty-Niner Speaks, by Hiram Dwight Pierce (HTML at LOC)
• The Natural Wealth of California, by Titus Fey Cronise (page images at MOA)

• Temporary Directory of San Francisco Business and Professional Men, Together with Directory of Municipal and State Officers, and Other Useful Information Gathered from Latest Announcements (1906) (HTML at cdlib.org)

• Reinvesting and Renewing for the 21st Century: A Community and Economic Benefits Study of San Francisco's Branch Library Improvement Program (2015), by San Francisco Public Library (PDF at sfpl.org)

• Direct Action: An Historical Novel (San Francisco: GroundWork, c2003), by Luke Hauser, contrib. by Starhawk (PDF with commentary at directaction.org)
• Homeland (2013), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)
• Little Brother (2008), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)
• The Avalanche: A Mystery Story, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text)
• Martin Eden, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Martin Eden: Romaani (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1920), by Jack London, trans. by Ville Hynynen (Gutenberg text)
• McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by Frank Norris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Seven Smiles and a Few Fibs (London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1897), by Thomas J. Vivian (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Seven Smiles and a Few Fibs (New York: R. F. Fenno and Co., c1900), by Thomas J. Vivian (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Sisters-in-Law: A Novel of Our Time, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text)
• The Sisters-in-Law: A Novel of Our Time (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1921), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Socialist and the Prince (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Co, 1903), by Mrs. Fremont Older, illust. by Harrison Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Californians, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at archive.org
• For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told (San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1903), by Charles Warren Stoddard, illust. by Marshall Douglass (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lanagan, Amateur Detective (New York: Sturgis and Walton Co., 1913), by Edward H. Hurlbut, illust. by Frederic Dorr Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Man's Woman (1904), by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• Other Things Being Equal, by Emma Wolf (Gutenberg text)
• Sleeping Fires, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text)
• The Maltese Falcon (c1930), by Dashiell Hammett (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Shadow of Quong Lung (Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1900), by C. W. Doyle (multiple formats at archive.org)

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