Contains 1735 photos
Elevated view northwest across City Hall Square (name changed to Marshall Square in December, 1902) and Pioneer Monument to City Hall with dome and rotunda still under construction, Cable car on City Hall Avenue. Pioneer (James Lick) Monument was dedicated on November 29, 1894. Statue on dome was installed in April, 1896. [City Hall S.F. Cal. Perkins 1227]
South of Market
View northeast across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building 'C.P.R.R. Oakland, Alameda & Berkeley Ferry' terminal. Market Street Cable Railway Co. cable cars and horse cars. Signage for real estate auctions for Lincoln, Placer County. Station D Post Office (Opened October, 1884). [451 Ferry Landing, San Francisco]
Financial District
[City Hall. S.F. Cal. 1601] View west from City Hall Ave & McAllister to Hall of Records, Mechanics Pavilion. Market Street cable car, bills and posters vendor wagon. Supreme Court Building (Larkin & McAllister) at right.
Civic Center
[439 Baldwin Hotel. Perkins] View north across Market to Powell. Cable car, Louvre restaurant, and Baldwin Hotel. St. Ann's Building on left. Trinity Episcopal Church on Union Square in left distance.
South of Market
View south down Powell between Geary & Post. Goodfriend Hotel, Elkan Gunst Building in background, St. Francis Hotel at right, Union Square on left.
Downtown / Union Square
View south across Geary St. to cable car dummy #12 and trailer #18 of the Geary St., Park & Ocean R.R. Co. Calvary Cemetery in background. Here, passengers transferred from cable cars to steam trains serving Golden Gate Park. Geary Street, Park & Ocean Railway began operations in 1880 and was purchased by the Market Street Railway in 1887. [B 46. Cable Street-Cars, San Francisco, Cal.]
Anza Vista
[B 467. Market Street From Third Street, San Francisco, looking east.] Lotta's Fountain at left, Palace Hotel at right.
South of Market
View west from center of Market to crowd gathered in street on a snowy day. Palace Hotel at left.
Financial District
Elevated view southwest to Knight's Templar parade (with columns marching in opposite directions) on Van Ness Avenue. St. Brigid's Roman Catholic church in distance. Presidio & Ferries Union St. cable car and trailer at center right. [658 K.T. Grand Review, Sacramento Commandery, Van Ness Avenue San F. Aug 20, 1885]
Russian Hill
Elevated view south across California near Powell to Stanford Mansion. In distance left, spires of Temple Emanu-El and Trinity Episcopal Church. Mark Hopkins Mansion at right. [B 3618 Stanford's Residence, California St, S.F.]
Nob Hill
[B 3656 The Baldwin Hotel, Market St, San Francisco, Cal.] Powell and Market Streets
Downtown / Union Square
[2920 Summit of California Street Hill, San Francisco.] View west. California Street Cable Cars, Flood Mansion at center, David Porter Mansion (later site of the Fairmont Hotel) at right. Stanford and Mark Hopkins Mansions at left.
Nob Hill
[B 3243] California Street looking west from Powell. Elevated view northwest to Flood, Huntington & Crocker mansions on north side of street, Mark Hopkins and Stanford mansions on left. Wall and grounds of David Porter mansion at right.
Nob Hill
[B 2344 Market St.] Taken between 1883 and 1887. Palace Hotel and Nucleus Block. Duplicate of wnp37.0359.
South of Market
Elevated view southeast across Market Street, to Hearst Examiner Building under construction, Call Building, Palace Hotel. Montgomery Market, Swan the Painter, The Oxford House 719 Market. Ettinger's Fringe Factory, New Creamerie Restaurant, Butler-Schutze Co., Whitaker & Ray Books in Bancroft History Building at right. [8703 Claus Spreckels Building, S.F. Cal.]
Downtown / Union Square