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SF Zoo
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SF Zoo

Visitors outside one of the zoo's operations buildings. Gorilla exhibit at right.

Lakeshore
SF Zoo
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SF Zoo

Space capsule-shaped children's ride at the Zoo

Lakeshore
City Hall Ruins
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City Hall Ruins

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest across then City Hall Avenue to ruins of west entrance of old City Hall following 1906 earthquake and fire. Published as stereoview with caption 'West Entrance City Hall'. [Copyright 1906 Clinton Johnson (#172?)]

Civic Center
Howard near 3rd
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Howard near 3rd

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Three 1906 earthquake and fire refugees sitting in ruins with gutted buildings in background. Howard Street Methodist Episcopal at left. [Copyright 1906 Clinton Johnson #39][ Originally from stereocard with this erroneous caption "Old First Baptist Church opposite the Mint"]

South of Market
Hall of Justice
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Hall of Justice

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to ruins of old Hall of Justice from Portsmouth Square following 1906 earthquake and fire. Refugee camp in foreground. Published as stereoview with caption 'Hall of Justice and Police Tents'.[Copyright 1906 Clinton Johnson #156]

Chinatown
Union near Steiner
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Union near Steiner

View west on Union between Steiner and Pierce Streets to twisted cable tracks displaced by earthquake. Large mansion with tower at southwest corner of Pierce and Union was built circa 1884 by wealthy attorney and landowner David Bixler. Flats at left with angled bays and rounded balconies extant 2019 at 2355-2365 Union St. [#52 Union St distorted by Earth-quake - Hughes, Fort Mason]

Cow Hollow
Telegraph Hill
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Telegraph Hill

Layman's Castle on Telegraph Hill, also called the German Castle and Layman's Folly. Photos shows the building after it was enlarged in 1883. The tallest spire was a smokestack for a power plant in the basement that powered a short-lived funicular rail line running up the hill on Greenwich St. [Pioneer Park Observatory, Telegraph Hill. Showing Time Ball. x-22]

Telegraph Hill
View W from Telegraph Hill
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View W from Telegraph Hill

[The Golden Gate View from Telegraph Hill S.F. - Watkins' new cabinet series] North Beach, Selby Smelting Works, Fort Mason, Golden Gate.

Telegraph Hill
Unknown Location
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Unknown Location

Victorian Building with mansard roof, sign reads 'Palace Hotel' ( not SF?)

McAllister & Larkin
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McAllister & Larkin

View southeast across McAllister toward Main Library (later Asian Art Museum), Whitcomb Hotel. McAllister streetcar #624 [Public Library, Civic Center].

Civic Center
City Hall
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City Hall

View west from near Grove & Hyde (empty lot is the site of the current Main Library), Civic Center Plaza with 'Welcome Home' Victory Monument. Fred C. Gerdes Storage at right.

Civic Center
City Hall
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City Hall

View west from Civic Center Plaza with 'Welcome Home' Victory Monument.

Civic Center
Fillmore near Broadway
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Fillmore near Broadway

View northeast to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 22-line #128 at terminus on Fillmore St. [0128-22-01 NB on Fillmore at Broadway ca 1941]

Pacific Heights
19th Ave & Irving
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19th Ave & Irving

First Republic Bank on southwest corner of 19th Ave and Irving St.

Sunset Outer
19th Ave & Irving
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19th Ave & Irving

First Republic Bank on southwest corner of 19th Ave and Irving St.

Sunset Outer