Contains 113 photos
View east from Favorite Point at Main Drive (now JFK Drive) and Bowling Green Drive. Horses, Buggies, people lounging on the grass. This small promontory was also called Chicken Point. [Golden Gate Park S.F. No. 5 Market St.]
Golden Gate Park
View south at reconstruction after 1906 earthquake. 'Edificio della Banca D'Italia' (Bank of Italy building) Campi's restaurant. Kohl Building in distance. [4298 South along Montgomery from Clay April 1907] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Chinatown
Elevated view west on Geary with St. Francis Hotel under repair in far distance. Reconstruction after 1906 earthquake. Whittell Building with large sign: 'This building constructed by J. R. Bowles.' Line of parked buggies and horses. Speck & Co. Street work. [4307 Geary Street from Market April 1907] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view of Market Street west from Montgomery Street. Tall flagpole with American flag, horse drawn carriages. wooden sidewalks. Steam train in the distance heading southwest. The Market Street Railroad ran only a single track on Market Street between 1860 and 1866, after which it added a second track. James H. Widber's drugstore was on the northeast corner of Market and Kearny from 1861 to 1867. (PF) From Carleton Watkins stereo 578. [Flag pole at Kearny Market year 4 July 1864, Steam Dummy, SS-73 578] Board sidewalks [F810 SS-073] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
View east on Market from Stockton. Call Building, Hearst Examiner Building, Palace Hotel in distance. Sanborn Vial & Co. Wholesalers, Dixon's Hatter, Midway Plaisance, Home of Burlesque. Many people walking, street sweeper. [Market St., looking E from Powell][F810 SS-095] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of Market
Elevated view southeast on Montgomery toward Sacramento. Sam Brannan's Armory Hall at left Donohue, Kelly & Co. building on Southeast corner across Sacramento. Variant of wnp71.1974. The Hebrew Observer, Gold Pen Factory. [S.F. 1868 East Side Montgomery St. at Sac. St. M.B. Collection] [F810 SS-140] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Chinatown
A.J. Plate & Co. Guns, 418-420 Market St. (Taber's Album of Principal Businesses)
Financial District
View northerly from 8th and Market Street across City Hall Square (name changed to Marshall Square in December, 1902) to City Hall. Pioneer (James Lick) Monument at center. Gardner works on new landscaping around Monument. [198. City Hall]
Civic Center