Contains 2408 photos
Elevated (possibly from roof of Shanghai Low Restaurant) rooftop view north on Grant. Sing Chong and Sing Fat Buildings, New Lincoln Hotel. Stained glass globe lights in front of Sing Fat and dragon streetlamps (dedicated in September, 1925). Telegraph Hill in distance.
Chinatown
[Hall of Justice. San Francisco, Cal.]View northeast across park to Hall of Justice. #15-Line Streetcar passing. Men sitting in Portsmouth Square. Flag at half mast.
Chinatown
11-13 Dupont (west side between O'Farrell and Geary) The building was set back from the street, so that when Dupont Street was widened on the west side a few years later, the front steps met the new sidewalk, and the building did not have to be torn down or moved back on its lot. (WMK) [Hammam baths, Grant Avenue. T. E. Hecht]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view looking northwest across Kearny St. Part of Portsmouth Square at far right. At left, J.E. (Joseph E.) Knowles, photographs, pictures newspapers; 621 Kearny; Dr. Moore, physician and surgeon office. (An original stereo view in the Bancroft Library (Houseworth No. 105) shows the registration date of 1869.)[N.W. cor Commercial-Kearny St.[TEH141 Kearny And Commercial Sts. 1870 (sic) T. E. Hecht]
Chinatown
Publishing House of A.L. Bancroft and Company, 721 Market, building destroyed by fire April 30, 1886. Decorations in honor of the Triennial Conclave of Knights Templar. Swan The Painter. [TEH790 T.E. Hecht Market St. opp Grant Ave.]
South of Market
['City of Paris' San Francisco] View of the southeast corner and 'City of Paris' department store.
Downtown / Union Square
[Market St and Grant Ave San Francisco, Cal] View west on O'Farrell, Phelan Building, Sheerin's laundry wagon, Union Trust bank.
South of Market
View southwest across the intersection of Battery and Jackson to the U.S. Customs house with Appraiser's Building in the background. The streets are paved with stone and horsecar tracks lead up Jackson Street. [TEH491 Custom House, Battery & Jackson sts. 1903 T. E. Hecht]
North Beach
Looking north to Market St. Apparel Center Building, which from 1951-1973 used as Veterans Administration Building. (WMK)
South of Market
View west along Fulton Street through Civic Center Plaza. Welcome Home Victory Monument at center.
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest to man and woman standing in pile of rubble in Marshall Square (City Hall Square), with the southwest corner of the ruins of City Hall in the background. [Copyright 1906 by Clinton Johnson 45]
Civic Center
Detail of Pioneer (James Lick) Monument at Hyde & Grove Streets (current site of the Main Library) showing the now removed 'Early Days' statuary grouping on the monument. City Hall in background. [19-14 A Corner of the Civic Center showing City Hall]
Civic Center
View of the Ferry Building from the bay.
[Matson-Roth Mansion], 2150 Washington near Laguna, across from Lafayette Square
Pacific Heights
Engine Company No. 23 Firehouse. Built 1893, 3022 Washington Street, sold at auction by city in 1963, at one time home of Gov. Jerry Brown. San Francisco Landmark #93
Pacific Heights