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Postcard view looking north towards SF Bay and Alcatraz from Brocklebank Apartments at Mason and Sacramento Streets. [1016 San Francisco and Alcatraz Island, California] Cable car powerhouse at Washington and Mason at lower left. Gas tank (gasometer) at Powell and Embarcadero at right.
Nob Hill
Ferry Building viewed from ferryboat on SF Bay. [Ferry Station, San Francisco] Handwritten notation: 'Leave at 6 PM. Have a good time in the East. A'
Two women posing in front of a mission-revival style residence, 175 Valdez near Monterey Boulevard
Westwood Park
Elevated view west across Dolores St. to Mission Dolores and church later designated a basilica, looking northwest over Dolores St. [Old & New Mission Dolores] Taken from Notre Dame School.
Mission Dolores
View north on Embarcadero from about Mission Street, New Wellingtown Coal Dock at right and Ferry Building in distance. [Driving hogs on Mission Street San Francisco 1908]
Financial District
Taxi drivers waiting in front of Ferry Building.
Financial District
View southwest, Geary Street at right. Bellevue Hotel, 505 Geary (southwest corner of Geary and Taylor) now known as The Marker. Built in 1907 as the Hotel Bellevue on the site of the pre-earthquake and fire Hotel Aiglon. Before that the El Monte Hotel, The Lyndhurst, and The Hollenbeck, and also the site of a small pre-earthquake and fire alley, Geary Place, that ran south from Geary Street half a block to a dead end, to four small attached houses on the west side of the alley.(PF)
Tenderloin
Advertising postcard for the Alhambra Apartments, 860 Geary Street between Larkin and Hyde. Alfred Maart, with his wife Anna, was the proprietor of the Alhambra Hotel Apartments from 1919-1921. This seems to be a copy of the architect's elevation drawn in 1913, architects Dunn & Kearns, and turned into a postcard. The original owner was interior decorator and capitalist August F. Schleicher. The building opened on July 15, 1914. (PF)[Alhambra Hotel Apts. Alfred Maart]
Lower Nob Hill
[Fallon Apartments 997 Golden Gate Ave, corner Laguna.] Golden Gate Grocery on first floor.
Western Addition
View northwest across Mission toward United States Mint (Old Mint). Horses and wagons passing on Mission Street.
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Temple Beth Israel ruins. (Original of wnp26.479)
Western Addition
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on Fulton from Van Ness toward City Hall ruins at Larkin Street.
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view south across Geary to 1906 earthquake damaged Temple Beth Israel Synagogue and Albert Pike Memorial Temple [Masonic Temple S.F]
Western Addition
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view North from Sacramento to south side of Claus Spreckels mansion (corner of Clay and Van Ness) in ruins after 1906 earthquake.
Pacific Heights
Egyptian-influenced museum building on Music Concourse. Originally constructed as the Fine Arts Building for 1894 Midwinter Fair, it was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. Dore vase at center. Shows building following repairs after 1906 earthquake.
Golden Gate Park