Dome of Old City Hall
Looking up at the dome of the pre-1906 City Hall. "City Hall Dome Top DHW 6-12-00 interior view"
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5th Street near Market
Elevated view northeast across 5th to Lincoln School. Wooden sidewalk and large pieces of stone on curb, perhaps part of U.S. Mint construction? Photo shows roof repairs and modifications following major fire in February, 1871. [Lincoln School 1869 (Sic)]
South of Market
3rd & Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south across Market after earthquake and fire to [No 120 Call Building, Call Building Annex and Kamm Building, R.J. Waters & Co.] photographer
Downtown / Union Square
3rd & Mission
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [#10 Aronson Bldg] 1906 ruins. View north on 3rd Street. Aronson Bldg and Call Building
South of Market
Market Street near 7th
View northwest across Market Street to City Hall, Hall of Records and nearby businesses: Gallagher-Marsh Business College 1382 Market, I.N. Eisenberg Shoes 1384 Market, Dore Photo Studio 1380 Market, Schrader Bros. City Hall Market, L.E. Clawson Chimneys 1340 Market.
South of Market
Marina District Aerial
Aerial view looking west of the undeveloped Marina District, Palace of Fine Arts, and Presidio. Golden Gate in distance. Future Crissy Field is covered by temporary World War I barracks. Former Oregon Building and California Building from Panama Pacific International Exposition at far right, (Circular area at lower right marks former location of the Fountain of Energy at the Exposition.)
Marina
California Street
Elevated view west from Montgomery; Nob Hill. Fairmont Hotel, Pacific States Hotel (556 California), Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, center left. Stanford Court Apartments (1912, later Stanford Court Hotel) under construction.
Downtown
Scott & O'Farrell
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northeast to earthquake damaged Girls High School. Hamilton Grammar School at right.
Western Addition
Sonoma Plaza
Old Sonoma Adobe Barracks with Victorian facade (since removed), torn sign over entry. Building to right is Old Sonoma Mission, building to left is Toscana Hotel. Merchant Solomon Schocken purchased the Barracks from Mariano Vallejo and his wife Benicia in July, 1879. In May, 1879 he opened a general merchandise store there. (Cropped version of wnp14.0945)
Outside SF
Sonoma Plaza
Left building is Old Sonoma Adobe Barracks occupied by the U.S. Officers and Troops in 1846 (according to Jesse Cook). two men in a buggy pulled by a mule. same location as wnp13.202
Outside SF
Hall of Records
View west to Hall of Records and City Hall, near present-day McAllister & Leavenworth Sts.
Civic Center
Grant near California
View northwest across Grant to Sing Fat Co., Sing Chong Co. Buildings and lighted glass globe lights on Dupont / Grant. McIntosh stereopticon co. Chicago / California, SF - Chinatown at night illuminated, largest in world.
Chinatown
Marshall Square
View north across City Hall Square (name changed to Marshall Square in December, 1902) to Pioneer (James Lick) Monument, which stood in the Square at present corner of Hyde and Grove Streets. City Hall behind, Hall of Records in right background. Stores on north side of Square, Station B Post Office, Petersen & Gantner Undertaker 8 & 10 City Hall Square. Yerba Buena Saloon, 85 City Hall Avenue. Taken prior to March 1900 installation of Spanish-American War prize cannon, where man is standing in this photo, and move of Station B Post Office in February, 1897. In 1993, the monument was moved to the pedestrian mall on Fulton Street between the Asian Art Museum and the new Main Library.
Civic Center
City Hall
576 City Hall San Francisco. Main Library at right
Civic Center
City Hall
City Hall from Civic Center Plaza
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