Buildings

Contains 285 photos

Mission near 4th
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Mission near 4th

[Gooden Mtg & Loan Co. 9-15-27 Mission Street East Above 3rd.] View east to Shield Hat Co., Triest & Co., Pacific Telephone building. Aronson Building in distance left. Area on right became Yerba Buena Gardens.

South of Market
Old Civic Center
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Old Civic Center

Looking west from City Hall Avenue (then Park Avenue) and McAllister St. to City Hall at left, Hall of Records in foreground. Supreme Court Building, background lower right, completed 1891. [5952 View of New City Hall, San Francisco.]

Civic Center
Russian Hill
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Russian Hill

Two high rise apartment buildings on hill

Telegraph Hill
Leidesdorff & California
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Leidesdorff & California

Looking south to Standard Oil Building in distance. Merchants Exchange on right.

Financial District
Old Post Office
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Old Post Office

View northwest across intersection of Battery & Washington to Post Office and Custom House. Appraisers Building in background. Cobblestone streets. Same image as wnp37.02104. [No. 116-R]

North Beach
California & Montgomery
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California & Montgomery

Looking east on California Street near Montgomery showing from left Wells Fargo in Parrott Building, or Parrott Block (1852, Architect Stephen Williams), Express Building, Safe Deposit Building, the second Merchants' Exchange Building, Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Co. at far right with pole in front. Watkins mobile studio at right, horsecar.

Financial District
California & Montgomery
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California & Montgomery

Elevated view southeast to south side of California. The second Merchants' Exchange building (completed July, 1867), Alameda Real Estate Agency, Bowen Bros.[208. South side of California Street, from Montgomery, looking east - Merchants' Exchange]

Financial District
California & Battery
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California & Battery

View across intersection to northeast corner, Tallant & Co. Bankers, Lowenberg & Co. Cigar Importers 224-26 California

Financial District
Sansome & Pine
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Sansome & Pine

Sather Banking Company; Pickens, Fulton & Company, southeast corner Sansome & Pine.

Financial District
Alcatraz
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Alcatraz

View northwest from tour boat towards the dock and buildings on east side of island.

California near Powell
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California near Powell

View east from below Powell to Bay Bridge and downtown. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Building (later Ritz Carlton Hotel) center right. Tall building in center is Louis Lurie's Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, demolished 1969).

Nob Hill
Foot of Market St
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Foot of Market St

Looking west to 3 Market Liquors, Southern Pacific Building, Crown Zellerbach and Hobart Building in distance.

Financial District
Nob Hill
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Nob Hill

Elevated view northwest from Kearny & Market. Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels, Brocklebank Apartments, Stanford Court Apartments (later hotel). Russian Hill in distance right. Original Federal Reserve Bank at center. Blurry.

Nob Hill
View from Russ Building
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View from Russ Building

View southwest to Empire Hotel/100 McAllister, City Hall Dome, St Francis Hotel, Sir Francis Drake Hotel, 450 Sutter building. Taken from roof of Russ Building, 235 Montgomery.

Financial District
Sutter near Grant
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Sutter near Grant

Elevated view northwest across Sutter to Young Men's Christian Association Building, R.E. Washburn & Co., 234 Sutter, Pianos and musical instruments, Jas. F. Crosett & Co., 230 Sutter, Employment agency. Nob Hill in background left. [106. Young Men's Christian Association Building - Sutter Street.] Same photograph with different cropping wnp71.0880

Downtown / Union Square