Contains 2408 photos
View northwest to Ferry Station Post Office, Embarcadero & Merchant, now site of Sue Bierman Park. Embarcadero Freeway construction in foreground. The building survived freeway and the nearby Golden Gateway construction, but was torn down in approximately 1967. Coit Tower, background right. [Bldg by Embarcadero]
Financial District
View to southwest corner and Shreve & Company jewelers warehouse at 539 Bryant, built 1912, still stands 2021, architect Nathaniel Blaisdell. Burgermeister Beer billboard.
South of Market
[Mechanics' Pavilion, Union Square 1865 MP-2] Wooden building facing Stockton St. [F810 MP-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
View northwest to large wooden structure on east side of Union Square, the Mechanics' Pavilion. Windmills, circus/theatre building and Temple Emanu-el in background. [F810 MP-003] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [Mechanics' Pavilion, Union Square 1867 MP-3 TEH200]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view to northwest corner of Powell and Eddy. St. Ann's Building with S.N. Wood & Co. Department store on first floor, Columbian Woolen Mills, Ideal Dental Company, Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias. Poodle Dog Restaurant in background left. At bottom right, site of Baldwin Hotel, which burned in November, 1898 and later Flood Building. [OF-88] [F810 OF-088] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Post Office and Custom House. Cobblestone streets, newsstand. [Year 1880. MB 796 Custom House & Post Office Battery-Wash St. PB-6] [F810 PB-006] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
North Beach
Appraisers Building on southeast corner of Sansome & Jackson. Under construction with post office, custom house in background. Advertising posters. [Taken from NW cor Sansome & Jackson, Jan 25 1876 PB-8] [F810 PB-008] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
North Beach
Elevated view of Appraisers Building nearing finish of construction. Reid & Brooks Crockery Warehouse. [Sept 19 1877 N. E. Cor showing Washing & Sansome St Muybridge PB-7] [F810 PB-009] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Stereoview looking to northwest corner. [U.S. Branch Mint, 5th Mission 1877 PB-10] [F810 PB-010] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of Market
View south from Lincoln School of U.S. Mint under construction. [PB-11 View of Mission Dst. SF 1873 from the top of Lincoln School Building can be seen on 5th Mission Minna & Jessie and on 6th St.] [F810 PB-011] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of Market
U.S. Sub-Treasury Building & Mint under construction at 608 Commercial. [April 24, 1876 South side of Commercial St. in front of Sub Treasury Bld. PB-13] [F810 PB-013] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Chinatown
Elevated view northwest to what was then called New City Hall and Hall of Records, probably from the Odd Fellows Building at 7th and Market. City Hall Avenue passes in front. McElroy (?) & Fiddes stables at 1336 Market. [New City Hall, PB-18] [F810 PB-018] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of Market
View northwest to south colonnade section of old City Hall complex, before construction of dome atop this structure completed in 1897. View across City Hall Avenue, which no longer exists. Omnibus Cable Railroad Car #12. Same image as wnp37.00053, different cropping. [New City Hall showing Rotunda. PB-19] [F810 PB-019] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Civic Center
View northeasterly from tower of City Hall east over Hall of Records dome. Turkish Drug Store, F.V. King signs, McAllister cable car lower left. Hopkins and Stanford mansions on Nob Hill in distance upper left. First Congregational Church, Temple Emanu-El, Trinity Church in distance center. [NE from City Hall 1888 TEH703 PB-20] [F810 PB-020] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) Source image is Taber 2787. See sharper version, wnp37.02434.
Civic Center
View northeast along City Hall Avenue, likely from the roof of the Mechanics Pavilion. What was then called New City Hall and the Hall of Records. Goodfellow Grotto at lower right. [Old City Hall PB-21] [F810 PB-021] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Civic Center