Contains 285 photos
View southeast across California to J. Harold Dollar (Balfour) Building (351 California) on corner and Robert Dollar Building in distance (built 1910, expanded in 1919). Fireman's Fund Insurance Company Building has since been demolished. Insurance Exchange Building (433 California) at right. Birdcage traffic signals at intersection.
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Elevated view looking northeast to bay. Warehouses, Brown & Power Co., Appraiser's Building, U.S. Custom House at top center. Fisher Packing Co.509-17 Commercial at right center. Brown & Power printers, Phillips, Smyth & Van Orden printers, 508 Clay at Sansome, Niantic Block (Niantic Building) at center. O. Milani & Brothers, chocolate & cocoa, 704 Sansome, at upper left. In center distance, Tillmann & Bendel Coffee and Spice Mill 694-6 Battery at Pacific. Panorama 1890 [Sic] part 3 [F810 PAN-004c] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View across dirt intersection to corner grocery store and bar run by Charles G. Friedrich. Children posing and mailbox on light pole. Block of flats to left owned by Thomas G. Maguire, who lived above grocery. [Maguire's Houses, NW cor Folsom and 20th St. Feb 22, 1887 11:35 AM. RE-23] [F810 RE-023] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Mission
View southwest across intersection to Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. building on southwest corner, after Mansard roof and 4th story added. Hayward's Building, the second Merchants Exchange Building (1867) and Safe Deposit Building (1875) towers on right.
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Looking east on California Street near Montgomery showing 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. [Cal St East from Montg. S.F. B=3677]
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View northeast across intersection to crowd posing in front of Bay State Market grocery in three story building. Metropolitan Hotel sign, Temple Shaari Zedek, barber shop. Harness & Carriage shop on right. The synagogue was built in 1854 as Temple Sherith Israel, but that congregation moved in 1870. A dissident group elected to stay at the synagogue, forming an Orthodox congregation with the new name. [Synagogue Sharrey (Sic) Zedek, SS-4 Showing the N.E. cor Bdway - Stockton St. Year 1889] [F810 SS-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
North Beach
View east down California to Cable car approaching. On left, San Francisco Savings Union (1894, William Curlett, architect), German Savings and Loan Society, Parrott Building, or Parrott Block (1852, Architect Stephen Williams), Kohl Building. On right, Safe Deposit Building with tower, Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York Building beyond. Clearer version with different cropping at wnp37.02807. [California St. July 3, 1905 SS-12] [F810 SS-012] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Elevated view southeast to south side of California. The second Merchant's Exchange building (completed July, 1867), People's Insurance Co., B. L. Schmitt, Bowen Bros. Express Building at left. [Calif-Montgy St 1866 SS-13] [F810 SS-013] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View east on California. Safe Deposit Building on southeast corner, the second Merchants' Exchange Building beyond. Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Co. at far right with pole in front. [East on Calif St from Montgy St. 1889 SS-15] [F810 SS-015] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View west from center of California. Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., second Merchants Exchange Building, Safe Deposit Building beyond, Bank of California, Boone & Osborn Patent Agency Law Office sign in front of Friedlander's Building. [California Street SS-21] [F810 SS-021] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View north on Leidesdorff north to Telegraph Hill in distance. B. Price Stockbroker. Merchants Exchange on far left, London & San Francisco Bank building (constructed in 1874) beyond across California, Hayward's Building at right. [No. 154 Leidesdorff Street 1880 SS-54] [F810 SS-054] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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[East side Montgy St. between California & Sacramento St.] Elevated view southeast across Montgomery to San Francisco Assaying and Refining Works, Liverpool & London Globe Insurance Co., Express Building. Clock tower of second Merchants' Exchange Building in background. [F810 SS-130] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View north to Telegraph Hill at far left. Montgomery Block building, Duncan & Co., California Steam Artesian Well Boring and Rock Drilling Co., Burton (Published in 1856, G.R. Fardon's San Francisco Album, title 'Montgomery Block, Montgomery Street') [TEH417 Montgomery Block, Montgomery ST., 1856 SS-154 Fardon] [F810 SS-144] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Elevated view northeast across intersectipn to Fisher & Co Hatters 300 Montgomery, Duncan & Co., Universal Life Insurance 304 Montgomery, Diaper & Saeltzer Architects 302 Montgomery (Frederick Diaper, Alexander Saeltzer), Goodwin & Co. Furniture, 322-324 Pine (opened on January 1, 1868 in the Academy of Music building), Delivery wagons and chairs, beds piled on sidewalk and street. Original Houseworth stereoview title 'Pine Street, east of Montgomery # 174'[Down Pine St from Montgomery 1870 SS-149] [F810 SS-149] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Elevated view northeast across Market to Union Block building with corner dome, north side of Market between Drumm and Front. J. D. Culp & Co. cigars; Albert Mau & Co.; Sroufe & McCrum, California Golden Mustard; Commins & O'Connor. Published in Taber's Album of Principal Businesses, 1880. Image with slight cropping differences at wnp33.04258 [SS-206 1880 Pine - Market 766] [F810 SS-206] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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