Unknown Location
Downtown empty swimming pool with flowered bottom in courtyard.
Buildings
Contains 285 photos
View of Downtown
Aerial view. Russ Building at center; ferries in Bay; Oakland in background
Downtown / Union Square
Presidio
Montgomery St. barracks; water wagon pulled by mules on right; cannon at center; ammunition caisson on left
Presidio
Fort Baker
View east from Vista Point at north end of Golden Gate Bridge towards WWII hospital buildings at Fort Baker. Angel Island and Oakland/Berkeley Hills in distance. Boat repair facility at Horseshoe Cove at right.
Outside SF
Protestant Orphan Asylum
View northeast from about Hermann and Buchanan toward Nob Hill in background, over Hayes Valley. Where UC Berkeley Extension was, now condominiums.
Mint Hill
3rd & Mission
View north on 3rd to Aronson, Call, Examiner (1911) and Mutual Savings Bank buildings. At left, Colorado House rooming house, Sunset Cafe, M.A. Gunst Building (Lansburgh and Joseph, Architects), southwest corner of Mission and 3rd, built 1907. 15-Line streetcar approaching on 3rd. A.W. Caro, Woolens, Arnstein, Simon & Co. Woolens & Trimmings. Williams Building (Clinton Day, architect) at far right. [Looking north on 3rd St., San Francisco, Cal. 1098 A.I.P.]
South of Market
View from Nucleus Bldg
[TEH40 T.E. Hecht View from Nucleus Bldg 1867 V-104] Elevated view north from the Nucleus Hotel at southeast corner of Third and Market. Kearny St lower center. The entrance to St. Mark's Place (renamed Morton Street in 1869) is visible just off Kearny Street. The date of this photograph, 1867, was just two years before brothels started colonizing this residential alley. Old St Mary's Church, Grace Church in background. St. Francis of Assisi church in distance right. wnp37.00682 is a cropped version of this image.
South of Market
Washington & Battery
[TEH490 Old Post Office Washington & Battery 1903 T. E. Hecht] View northwest across intersection to Post Office and Custom House. Appraisers Building in background. Cobblestone streets.
North Beach
California & Sansome
[TEH495 Cal St. West of Sansome T. E. Hecht] View west from center of street to Nob Hill, California Street cable car, Fireman's Fund Insurance Building with added Mansard roof and 4th story, Hayward's Building and 3rd Merchant's Exchange building on left at Leidesdorff corner, Bank of California on right, Kohl Building beyond. Grace Church, Fairmont Hotel in distance.
Financial District
Bush & Battery
Elevated view west down Sutter from Shell Building; Standard Oil and Russ buildings. Adam Grant Building roof at bottom right. In distance, St. Francis and Sir Francis Drake Hotels, 450 Sutter, Fairmont Hotel, Brocklebank Apartments.
Financial District
Sansome & California
[Sansome street from California- looking North 1381] Elevated view North to Telegraph Hill. Horsecar tracks, wagons, giant pitcher on top of a crockery store. Same image as Watkins stereograph 1381 'Sansome Street from California, looking North', with different cropping. Edges of Bank of California (left) and Friedlander Building (right).
Financial District
Grant near Sacramento
Elevated view north to west side of street, Formerly Dupont St., ?Woh & Co. Art Goods, Man Lee & Co. (709 Dupont), Fook Yuen & Co.(711 Dupont), [3119 Chinese Restaurant, SF Cal]
Chinatown
California near Leidesdorff
View southwest across empty street to south side of California, from left: Hayward's Building (1867) with New Orleans Cafe in basement space, second Merchant's Exchange Building (1868), Safe Deposit Building (1875). In distance far right, Stanford and Mark Hopkins mansions.
Financial District
California & Sansome
[California St. from Sansome to Montgomery sts, SF Watkins New Cabinet Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast 427 Montgomery Street] Elevated view northwest across intersection to Bank of California, North Beach and California horsecar tracks. Parrot Block, Cast Iron Bank. London & San Francisco Bank building (constructed in 1874), 424 California, at left at Leidesdorff corner.
Financial District
California & Montgomery
Elevated view southeast to south side of California. Hayward's Building at center, the second Merchants' Exchange Building, Safe Deposit Building under construction at right. August Weihe, stock broker, Mahogany Gold & Silver Mining Co. in Express Building at left [From Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery, Portrait and Landscape, 26 Montgomery Street, opp. Lick House entrance]
Financial District