Contains 268 photos
View north, Franklin Hall is tallest building on left, towards Bush intersection. Chinn-Beretta Optical 1821 Fillmore, Chronicle sign, Spiegel Signs, Laib Signs, Sweeny & McCarthy Men's Furnishings, L.& M. Alexander & Co. Typewriters, 1820 Fillmore. From the period when earthquake-damaged businesses temporarily relocated to Fillmore St. and city offices moved to Franklin Hall.
Japantown
View southwest to group of 5 Asian American women on Post Street, with Union Square in background; Elkan Gunst Building and St. Francis hotel in background. 3 of 3
Downtown / Union Square
View northwest across intersection to Municipal Railway (Muni) D-line Streetcar #32 turning east onto Geary. Van Etta Lincoln Mercury auto dealership, Heald College, Waters DeSoto Plymouth dealership in background.
Cathedral Hill
View northeast across Mission to northbound 41-line #806 streetcar with zip stripe livery and Salvation Army flags crossing the Mission Viaduct on its way from the Geneva Barn to 2nd & Market. St. Mary's Park neighborhood, Holly Park, Junipero Serra Elementary School and Bernal Heights in background. [806 Mission at Alemany]
Mission Terrace
View northeast across Washingto to Muni Washington & Jackson Cable Car #524, heavily decorated on front sides and top as Irwin Blood Bank Special for Red Cross Procurement Project. Car ran past the blood bank, then at Washington and Laguna Sts.
Pacific Heights
View east to Muni 31-line Balboa streetcar #981 westbound on "Balboa Dip".
Richmond Outer
View east on McAllister across Hyde, Municipal Railway (Muni) 5-line streetcar #819, passing the Main Library (now the Asian Art Museum) at right, Hotel Astor at left.
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake and Fire. View southeast across Market to Call Building on fire in distance. California Academy of Sciences, Emporium, Red Front Store. Armed soldiers. [April 18, 1906 Emporium on Fire] (T.E. Hecht copy TEH)
Downtown / Union Square
View west across Dolores St to Mission Dolores and cemetery with Twin Peaks in background (with Cook's Water sign on hill). Same image with different writing at bottom right as wnp37.00511. [Copyright 1904 by W.E. Worden]
Mission Dolores
View south to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 10-Line #802 with zip stripe livery, to Sunnyside district and Balboa High School.
Sunnyside
Elevated view north from fire escape of Chancellor Hotel, 433 Powell. Munson School on right.
Downtown / Union Square
View southwest across Potrero to Potrero Avenue Saloon & Boarding House with signs for Hibernia Steam Beer, Gibbons Whiskey, men sitting on wood beam [dpwbook2 dpw325]
Potrero Hill
Elevated view east from the Civic Auditorium along City Hall Avenue. Preparation for Grove Street extension to Market is underway. Marshall Square with Pioneer (Lick) Monument in its original location which would become the corner of Hyde and Grove. Methodist Book Concern Building, 3 City Hall Ave.(Now 83 McAllister) in distance left with large sign atop. On Market St. near 7th are Grant Building, Odd Fellows Hall, American Theatre. At far right, rear of Robison Bros. Bird Store, 1260 Market (which stands in 2019 as the Wells Fargo Bank Building (1908), 1256-1264 Market, one of only two buildings remaining along the City Hall Avenue alignment). [dpwbook10 dpw2080]
Civic Center
View northeast to Harbor Police Station on corner of Drumm & Commercial Streets. (Now Embarcadero Center #3 and #4.) wnp36.00769, taken a few months later, shows 4 large light fixtures installed around entrances. [dpwbook11 dpw2239]
Financial District
Campaign advertising wagon, 'Vote No - We Want Hetch Hetchy' - 'Congressment Kahn, Nolan, and Kent say we can have Hetch Hetchy without Spring Valley' [dpwbook11 dpw2347]