Masonic Temple
Masonic Temple-corner Post and Montgomery Streets
Downtown / Union SquareBuilding
Contains 2408 photos
Old Post Office
"138. Post Office and Custom House, Battery Street" between Jackson and Washington. Elevated view northwest, Telegraph Hill in background.
Financial District
Sutter & Stockton
Elevated view northwest across Sutter St. toward temple Emanu-el. Building on right, at northwest corner of Sutter & Stockton was the mansion of pioneer physician Augustus J. Bowie until 1871, when it was converted to a theatre and beer garden, the Vienna Garden. It was demolished in 1892. Also the home of Judge Burritt and banker Lucien Herman. Plank sidewalks.
Downtown / Union Square
Hunters Point
First Engine House at Hunters Point Drydock [Engine House. Hunters Point Dry Dock 1724]
Hunters Point
4th & Townsend
View northeast across intersection to North Beach and Mission horsecar on 4th in front of Southern Pacific headquarters building. That line went to Powell and Jefferson.
South of Market
Bancroft Building
View southeast across Market to 723 Market Street, the A. L. Bancroft & Company Building, between 3rd & 4th Streets. Building destroyed by fire, April 30, 1886.[Bancroft's Building, Market St., S. F. July 4, 1876. 3580]
South of Market
Montgomery & Sutter
Occidental Hotel, East side of Montgomery between Sutter and Bush. City of Paris, Shreve & Co., lines of carriages. [1735. Occidental Hotel, Montgomery Street Front, S.F.]
Downtown / Union Square
Old Mint
5th Street at Mission. View northwest across intersection United States Mint, children on board sidewalk, horses and wagons, cobblestones, utility poles with 8 crossbars, and horsecar rails. Variant of Reilly stereocard titled 'No. 175 U.S. Mint, San Francisco, Cal."
South of Market
Old Mint
5th Street at Mission. View northwest across intersection United States Mint, children on board sidewalk, horses and wagons, cobblestones, utility poles with 8 crossbars, and horsecar rails. Variant of Reilly stereocard titled 'No. 175 U.S. Mint, San Francisco, Cal."
South of Market
Chronicle Building
[Chronicle Building, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. El Edificio del Chronicle, San Francisco, California, E. U. de A.] View From Market & 4th. Men talking carriages waiting. Crocker Building under construction in background. 700 Market building on Kearny corner with Chronicle signage on west side.
Downtown / Union Square
City Hall Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north across Market St. to Earthquake ruins, City Hall and Hall of Records. Boy poses holding dangling cable. [16857. What an Earthquake can do for a modern city in three minutes, San Francisco.] Streetcar, City Hall and Hall of Records. Pioneer (James Lick) Monument at far right
South of Market
Minna near 5th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest across field of rubble to Old U.S. Mint at 5th and Mission Streets. [8187-United States Mint, surrounded by the ruins of earthquake and fire, San Francisco, Cal. U-91119]
South of Market
Civic Center
City Hall from Grove and Larkin
Civic Center
Civic Center
City Hall and Main Library looking west from Fulton and Hyde.
Civic Center
Civic Center
City Hall; parking garage under construction
Civic Center