View east to Lotta's Fountain, Chronicle Building (with Dr. Willetts chiropractor, Security Finance Co., Florsheim shoes signs), Metropolis Trust and Savings Bank Building with Bank of America sign atop, Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building with Eureka Federal Savings, Great Northern Railroad. Commercial slide. Birdcage traffic signals.
Downtown / Union Square
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California & Leidesdorff
American Trust Company. The building was originally the London and San Francisco Bank, built in 1873-1874. It survived the 1906 earthquake and fire and was rehabbed by Willis Polk, who added the short top story. (WMK)
View east down Califorina to multiple California Street cable cars. On left, San Francisco Savings Union (1894, William Curlett architect), German Savings and Loan Society, Parrott Building, or Parrott Block (1852, Architect Stephen Williams), Kohl Building, London & San Francisco Insurance Building. On right, Safe Deposit Building with tower, Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York Building beyond. Fog or smog in the background. Cropped version of wnp71.1888.
Financial District
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16th & Valencia
Mission Savings Bank, northwest corner of 16th and Valencia. Corner entrances at base of clock tower were designed as replicas of the Mission Dolores entrance. Crim & Scott, Architects. Struven Furniture Company. Duplicate of wnp71.0191. [OF-58]
Mission Dolores
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Grant & Market
View east on Market past Union Trust Co. bank to Call Building with Hearst Building under construction. Taken just before wnp37.03834? Streetcar pattern seems just earlier.
Downtown / Union Square
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Market & Montgomery
View east across Market from the Palace Hotel toward the intersection of Market and Montgomery. Crocker Building, Wells Fargo Bank Building, Hobart Building, Flatiron building. [Market St. S.F. CAL]
South of Market
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Sacramento & Montgomery
[Donohoe (Sic), Kelly & Co.'s Bank, cor. Sacramento and Montgomery Sts.] elevated view of southeast corner to Donohue, Kelly Bank.
Chinatown
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Sutter & Trinity
French-American Bank, 110 Sutter (The bank reopened at its new location by April 1907) View towards Market Street. Savings and Loan Society on the northwest corner of Sutter and Montgomery in the background. Street lamps with bears on top. Woman with umbrella and big hat passing.
Downtown / Union Square
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Fillmore & California
View north across intersection to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 4-line streetcar #218 headed to East Bay Terminal. American Trust building on right. Iron arches at intersections removed in June, 1943.
Lower Pacific Heights
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California & Fillmore
View northeast across intersection to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 22-line streetcar #126. American Trust Company in background.
Lower Pacific Heights
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California & Fillmore
View northeast to Muni 22-line streetcar #869 with zip stripe livery. American Trust Company in background. Northbound Muni 22-Line streetcar #873 with wings livery in distance.
Pacific Heights
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Market & McAllister
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Hibernia Bank, fire damage [129]
Tenderloin
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3rd near Market
View north on 3rd St. toward Market and Kearny. Passengers boarding Muni 43-line streetcar #296 (with zip stripe livery). Muni Bus #412 with zip stripe livery. 'Railway Express' delivery truck. Mutual Savings Bank (with Bank of America, H. Bresler Watchmaker, Drs. Frost & Quinne Dentists signs), Flannery (with large Acme Beer sign and Dinty's Kitchen), Chronicle and Hearst Examiner Buildings.
South of Market
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Castro & 18th
View northeast to Market St. Railway Co. (MSRy) cable car #7 of Castro line at terminus. Prudence Penny grocery, Hibernia Bank in background.