Union Square
Elevated view southeast across Union Square from Post and Powell Streets. Dewey Monument at center. [#19 Union Square San Francisco Calif]
Downtown / Union SquareBuilding
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Bush near Montgomery
Sailors with rifles marching in formation up Bush St. Unique Diary Lunch at 318 Bush St. and Chas. H. Kewell Co. sporting goods at 316 Bush St. in background. [inscription: This is a better pictures of me. I never knew why the girls were calling me bay doll but I found out they see my dimples. You can see them for yourself . - Tommy]
Downtown / Union Square
Market near 4th
View east on Market Street towards Call Building. [1904] Examiner Building and Palace Hotel in distance. Cable car with sign reading 'CHUTES,' pedestrians and horse drawn carriages in street.
South of Market
View from Palace Hotel
View looking northwest towards Nob Hill from Palace Hotel at Market and New Montgomery. [13. Nob Hill San Francisco Cal.] Fairmont Hotel at top center, with Stanford Court Apartments (how Hotel) in front.
South of Market
View from Pacific Heights
View northwest from approx. Green and Baker Streets towards Presidio and Marin Headlands. [21. North Cantonment, Presidio San Francisco, Calif.] Far left: Letterman Hospital and officers quarters. Temporary WWI barracks at top. Siam Pavilion, Palace of Fine Arts, and Oregon Building from PPIE.
Cow Hollow
de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park, Exterior of de Young Museum with original ornate detailing, as designed by architect Louis Christian Mulgardt. [The De-Young Museum. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Cal.]
Golden Gate Park
15th & Kirkham
View north from 15th Avenue steps to Golden Gate heights. Golden Gate Park and Strawberry Hill in distance.
Golden Gate Heights
Japanese Tea Garden
Golden Gate Park. Young woman wearing flowered hat and overcoat standing in front of shrine in Tea Garden [JTG]
Golden Gate Park
Ocean Beach
Ocean Beach Pavilion viewed from Great Highway. Seal Rock Hotel at far left. Numerous horse drawn carriages and crowds of people on highway. Built in 1884, it contained a giant ballroom that could hold 2,000 people at a time. The building had bars, restaurants, and a boxing gym that was once used by the first African-American heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson. After many conversions and remodelings, the Pavilion was demolished in 1972.
Sutro Heights
Oakland
Altenheim Building at MacArthur Blvd. and Excelsior Ave. in Oakland. 'Elders home' in German, retirement home to house retirees of Germanic descent. Built 1893-94. Burned down in 1908.
Outside SF
Glen Park
Balloon ascension at Glen Park. View east across the valley toward San Miguel Hills. This is possibly the scene of an accident, the aerialist can be seen below the balloon attached to undeployed parachute. Light-colored structure at right is a model of Morro Castle, located at approximately today's Mizpah and Sussex Street.
Glen Park
McLaren Lodge
Golden Gate Park. Built in 1896, the McLaren Lodge was once the home of John McLaren, the Park Superintendent from 1887 to 1943. Also held Offices for the Recreation and Parks Department, a use that continues today.
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park.
Sharon Building (also Sharon Lodge). Built in 1888, a sandstone building in the Richardsonian Romanesque style to serve as a canteen for children and mothers visiting the Golden Gate Park Children's Quarters. It was damaged the 1906 Earthquake and by fire in 1974, but it was restored to its original appearance after each of these disasters.
Golden Gate Park
Conservatory of Flowers
Golden Gate Park. View over Conservatory Valley from near Main Drive (today's JFK Drive) towards Conservatory of Flowers.
Golden Gate Park
San Mateo Central Grammar School.
Built in 1892 and demolished in 1923, when a replacement school was built on the site.