Contains 268 photos
View northeast to Santa Marina Building (completed 1907), Pacific Steamship Co., Matson Navigation Co. at 112 Market Street. Ad for Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum on side of Scandinavian Hotel (Scandinavian Sailors Home) 116 Drumm (built 1907). California St. Cable Car, public drinking trough for horses at right. Marine recruitment and Liberty loan posters. [BU-34 1304] [G810 BU-034] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Elevated view south across Market and down 2nd Street from Hobart Building to Santa Fe Building/West Coast Life Insurance Building (built as Santa Fe Railroad headquarters, Wood & Simpson architects, 1917), southeast corner of 2nd and Market. This view predates the 1921 addition of 2 more floors.[G810 OF-083] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
View east downhill toward Financial District, cable car approaching. From left, 720 California building before 2 story addition, Trademark Building with Cathay House Restaurant, Old St. Mary's cathedral and rectory with crowd leaving, Home Insurance Company Building under construction at Kearny St. corner in distance (completed 1951, later Fireman's Fund building), Muni bus with wings livery crosses Kearny intersection, States Hotel. Merchants Exchange, Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, now demolished), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery).
Chinatown
Elevated view north to construction on Merchandise Mart Annex, 9th Street between Market and Jessie. F. Thomas Parisian Dyeing & Cleaning Works on left, in building which has since been demolished. Civic Auditorium and City Hall in background. On Market Street in distance, 76 gas station with large sign on tower, Chase Hotel (built 1907), SF Radio store. [Furniture Mart Annex - Cahill]
South of Market
[PA-26] Elevated view north across Market to parade. Crowd lining sidewalk and Freud's Corset House at 742-744 Market, Kast's Shoes at 738-740 Market ('Headquarters for Buckingham & Hecht's Fine Shoes'), Sign on back of City of Paris department store at Geary and Grant (before 1897 move) in background. [F810 PA-026] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view southwest to Byrne residence, possibly John M. Byrne, importer, 533 Sutter. Man poses looking out of rear window and girl on front porch. In distance, the back of St. John's Presbyterian Church on Post St., built circa 1866. In 1870, the congregation bought the building from St. James' Episcopal Church. Ads on fence for Heuston, Hastings & Co. for Clothes, J.R. Mead & Co. Clothing, Plantation Bitters (with its intentionally cryptic slogan "S–T–1860–X". Plank sidewalk. Houses have Carpenter Gothic barge boards. [South side Sutter bet Powell - Mason Res-Byrnes RE-3] [F810 RE-003] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Southeast corner of Powell and Sutter, elevated view northeast from across Powell. Chancellor Hotel at left, United Airlines sign, Fitzhugh Building at right.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view west from Ferry Building tower up Market Street. From left, Pacific Telephone Building, Southern Pacific Building, Matson Building, Hotel Terminal, Standard Oil Building, Russ Building. Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels in distance right. John L. Prior Co. Sail Makers, Johnson, Joseph & G.M. Josselyn & Co., numerous billboards, including one for Bernstein's Fish Grotto. '57' sign. Shell Building (1929) not yet built. Fife Building with Chevrolet sign atop. [on back: Moulin Market St. & Twin Peaks from Ferry Bldg]
Financial District
View to northwest corner, large Dr. Libbey dentist sign (Mark L. Libbey) with portrait on roof. Gold tooth (which may have inspired Frank Norris' use in 'McTeague') hanging from 2nd floor, George Finck jewelry, F. D. Ring (Frederick D. Ring) watches, jewelry and silverware on ground floor. Contra Costa Laundry Association delivery wagon at right, Wm. Monahan (real estate) at far left. This small lot was a holdout to larger buildings and is still evident on the corner in 2021. Cropped version of wnp37.00778-R, Watkins No. 1713 Title: Corner of Geary and Kearny streets, S.F.[N.W. cor Kearny - Geary St. 1867 (sic) SS-44] [F810 SS-044] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
West side of 3rd Street between Mission and Stevenson. St. Louis Photo Gallery, O'Dwyer & Co. with sign reading 'Entire stock must be sold for new Building to be built on this site' it would be the 7-story Winchester Hotel SE corner of 3rd and Stevenson; M. Schaefer, costumer; E. Rabjohn Jr., hardware. Horse and buggy. Hanging streetlight. [SS-182] [F810 SS-182] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of Market
View northeast to Bernal Heights. Municipal Railway H-line streetcar #22 with wings livery approaching, another streetcar behind. Kunst Bros. Paint Co. sign painted on fence in background, Dr. Pepper billboard.
Bernal Heights
View east past Municipal Railway R-line trolley bus #502. Key System train overpass and piers in background. Signal Gas station. Folger's Coffee signage.
South of Market
Advertising sheet of photos and sketch highlighting construction of Irving Theatre in 1925. Portraits of Harry Sack and Wm. S. Godfrey, Jr. It closed August 8, 1962 and has been demolished
Sunset Inner
Advertising sheet for 'Nance O'Neil, a California Girl', presenting 'A Women's Past,' a 'powerful sermon against evil,' on January 18, 1916. O'Neil (1874-1965) was born in Oakland, California.
Sunset Inner
View north on Divisadero toward Fell, past Arco gas station to northeast corner, housing Greens Pharmacy. Queen Anne building built 1888-1889 as Theodore Green Apothecary, Samuel Newsom architect. It is San Francisco Landmark #182.drug store,
Lower Haight